#BookReview: Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7) by Ben Aaronovitch

Title: Lies Sleeping

Series: Rivers of London, #7
Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Mystery 
Pages: Hardcover, 430 pages
Pub Date: November 15th 2018
Publisher: Gollancz
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 4 Stars

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Synopsis: Join Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, for a brand new case . . .

Martin Chorley, aka the Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud, and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run. Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring Chorley to justice.

But even as the unwieldy might of the Metropolitan Police bears down on its foe, Peter uncovers clues that Chorley, far from being finished, is executing the final stages of a long term plan. A plan that has its roots in London’s two thousand bloody years of history, and could literally bring the city to its knees.

To save his beloved city Peter’s going to need help from his former best friend and colleague–Lesley May–who brutally betrayed him and everything he thought she believed in. And, far worse, he might even have to come to terms with the malevolent supernatural killer and agent of chaos known as Mr Punch . . . 

#TBRChallenge @JustineLavaworm @WillMcIntoshSF

Welcome to the last TBR Challenge of 2018!! Last weeks winner was #####, and whoop its going to be awesome I just know it!!  I hope you guys have enjoyed these polls! 

#BookReview: Beautiful by @FranWrites11

Title: Beautiful

Author: Fran Laniado
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy (Retelling) 
Pages: ebook, 254
Pub Date:  July 4th 2018
Publisher: Independently published
Book Source: Author
My Rating: 4 Stars

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Synopsis:  A TALE OF BEAUTIES AND BEASTS

Eimear is Faerie. She left the land of her birth, to find a place where she felt like she could belong. She finds herself in the World, a strange place, where she is the only magical being, and she begins to build a life for herself. But when she encounters Finn, supernaturally beautiful but thoughtless and selfish, she gets angry. In a fit of rage, she casts a spell on Finn. It’s a spell that she can’t undo, even when she discovers that she’s ruined Finn’s life.

Finn is wealthy, arrogant, and cruel. He didn’t think twice about insulting Eimear, until it was too late. Now, exiled from the only home he’s ever known, he is forced to make his own way, for the first time ever. He does have support- if he wants it. Eimear, wants to assuage her guilt by helping him.

In an isolated place, thrown together initially out of desperation and need, Eimear and Finn find a way to live together. That alliance eventually blossoms into friendship, and even love. But before they can have their happily ever after, Eimear must go on a perilous journey that will force her to confront everything that she ran away from when she left Faerie. 

#BookBlitz: Countdown to Love Anthology @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Countdown to Love
Publication date: December 28th 2018
Genres: Adult, Romance

Ring in your New Year with ten heart-clenching, sexy stories across multiple genres, that will keep you wanting more.

All proceeds will be donated to Alex’s Lemonade Stand to help fight childhood cancer.

COUNTDOWN TO LOVE

10. Kimberly Knight – By Invitation Only

9. Melissa Toppen – Crazy Stupid Love

8. Regina Bartley – Dirty Nails

7. Lucia Franco – Hold on to Me

6. Savannah Stewart – If Love was Fair

5. Mila Cole – Lighter

4. Barbara C. Doyle – The Choices We Make

3. Micalea Smeltzer – The Game that Breaks Us

2. Bayli Lane – What If

1. Fabiola Francisco – Whiskey Nights

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

#BookRecommendations: Heretics Anonymous by @KT_NRE @KTegenBooks

Welcome to this weeks Book Recommendations! This week we have one that will give you so many laughs. 

#BookReview: Bleak Harbor (Bleak Harbor #1) by Bryan Gruley

Title: Bleak Harbor 

Series: Bleak Harbor #1
Author: Bryan Gruley 
Genres: Adult, Thriller, Mystery
Pages: Hardcover, 378
Pub Date: December 1st 2018
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 3 Stars

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Synopsis: Their son is gone. Deep down, they think they’re to blame.

Summertime in Bleak Harbor means tourists, overpriced restaurants, and the Dragonfly Festival. One day before the much-awaited and equally chaotic celebration, Danny Peters, the youngest member of the family that founded the town five generations ago, disappears.

When Danny’s mother, Carey, and stepfather, Pete, receive a photo of their brilliant, autistic, and socially withdrawn son tied to a chair, they fear the worst. But there’s also more to the story. Someone is sending them ominous texts and emails filled with information no one else should have. Could the secrets they’ve kept hidden—even from one another—have led to Danny’s abduction?

As pressure from the kidnapper mounts, Carey and Pete must face their own ugly mistakes to find their son before he’s taken from them forever.

#BookBlitz: The Cowboy’s Forgetful Bride by @leslienorthbook @XpressoTours #Giveaway

The Cowboy’s Forgetful Bride
Leslie North
(Brothers of the Cooper Ranch, #1)
Publication date: December 27th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Bella Whitmore is the heir to the Whitmore Shipping fortune. Refusing to be pigeon-holed into the socialite box, Bella has worked her entire life to show her father that she can be the son he never had and take over the Whitmore Shipping Empire. So when she wakes up, on a ranch in Montana, missing the memories of the last month of her life, you’d think that would be the worst case scenario. And it is…until she realizes the devil she’d worked so hard to avoid for the last year is now her husband.

Sawyer Cooper knows he’s a devil. Handsome, charismatic, and with an eye for feeding people’s vices, Sawyer’s reinvented himself as a shark in the business world, but very few realize that he’s actually a Cooper of the Country Coop fortune. But rather than resting on the laurels (and red-neck reputation) of Country Coop, Sawyer wants to show the world exactly how important farming can be. To do this, he needs Bella Whitmore’s help. Every bit as beautiful as her name suggests, and smarter than everyone else in the room, Sawyer knows that she could make his dreams come true, both inside and outside of the bedroom. And after a year of pursuing her, she’s finally said yes — to everything.

But after a horseback riding accident, Bella’s brain has reset back to the beginning, and Sawyer was never good at starting a game over. Especially not after he’d already won. Now, Sawyer needs to figure out how to woo her for a second time. Because this time around it’s not just his professional pride on the line: it’s his heart.

#BookBlitz: The Dating Alternative by @AuthorJWoodhull @XpressoTours #Giveaway

The Dating Alternative
Jennifer Woodhull
Publication date: December 26th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

She’s so over dating. He wants to be her alternative.

Max has crushed on Brie for as long as he’s known her but the timing was never right. When he finds out they’re finally single at the same time, he’s poised to move from friend zone to serious dating… until he finds out she’s only looking for something physical. He offers his services in hopes she’ll come around.

Just when things are starting to go his way, a shocking turn of events snatches her from his grasp. Now he has to resurrect the life he thought he’d left behind to help the woman he’s falling in love with before it’s too late.

A sweet, funny, sexy romance, The Dating Alternative launches everywhere December 26th.

#BookTour: BENEATH THE LIGHTHOUSE by @JulieanneLynch @JeanBookNerd #Giveaway

Title: Beneath the Lighthouse

Author: Julieanne Lynch
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal 
Pages: Paperback, 304 pages
Pub Date: June 2018
Publisher: Vesuvian Books
Book Source: Jean Book Nerd
My Rating: 4 Stars

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Synopsis: SOME SECRETS ARE MADE TO BE UNCOVERED.

Sixteen-year-old Jamie McGuiness’s sister is dead. Sinking into a deep depression, he frequents the lighthouse where her body was discovered, unaware of the sinister forces surrounding him.

When an angry spirit latches onto Jamie, he’s led down a dark and twisted path, one that uncovers old family secrets, destroying everything Jamie ever believed in.

Caught between the world of the living and the vengeful dead, Jamie fights the pull of the other side. It’s up to Jamie to settle old scores or no one will rest in peace—but, first, he has to survive.

Blogger Hop: Did you get any books for Christmas? via @coffeeramblings

Welcome to this weeks Book Blogger Hop! This weeks Question is Did you get any books for Christmas?  Well sadly here in our home due to my mom's cancer treatments and my daughter's diabetes Christmas was pretty much canceled.  So here are some books that I wish I could have gotten this year! 

#BookReview: Little Heroes: Inventors Who Changed the World by Heidi Poelman, Kyle Kershner (Illustrations)

Title:  Inventors Who Changed the World

Series: Little Heroes
Author: Heidi Poelman, Kyle Kershner (Illustrations)
Genres: Children's, Learning
Pages: Board Book, 20
Pub Date: September 1st 2018
Publisher: Familius
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 5 Stars

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Synopsis: From the ranging curiosity of Leonardo da Vinci to the dedication and sacrifice of Marie Curie, Little Heroes: Inventors Who Changed the World is a young child's first introduction to the brilliant people who taught us the meaning of perseverance and innovation. Simple text and adorable illustrations tell the contributions of nine renowned inventors from around the world: Cai Lun, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Grace Hopper, Mary Sherman Morgan, and Nikola Tesla. Inspire your own little inventor with the words of these inventive heroes who changed the world.

#BookBlitz: For the Blood by @authordcassidy @XpressoTours #Giveaway

For the Blood
Debbie Cassidy
(For the Blood, #1)
Publication date: December 27th 2018
Genres: Adult, Post-Apocalyptic, Romance, Urban Fantasy
Stay alive at all costs. No attachments, no looking back, no emotion.
The last thing my father gave me was a key. No explanation, no details, just a key. The last thing he asked of me was to take the key to a set of co-ordinates. But survival in a fallen world filled with Feral isn’t easy. The Fangs and the Claws, once upstanding members of society are now slave to the virus, hunting indiscriminately under a perpetually full moon.
There is no hope. There is no haven. Not alone. Not until them.
They are a new breed of monster—beasts of both fang and fur. Unaffected by the sickness, they crave only one thing, and it runs through my veins. Survive, my father said. Look out for no one except yourself. But sometimes the only way to survive is to make attachments. Sometimes the only way to live is to accept a dance with death. And right now, for me, the path to survival is in the blood.
Here’s to hoping it doesn’t kill me.
The Vampire Diaries meets The Walking Dead in this Post-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy with a slow burn Why Choose romance

#BookTags: Beauty and the Beast

Welcome to this weeks post for Book Tags! This week I am doing the Beauty and the Beast Book Tag! Please note that all covers link to Amazon. 

#ComicReview: Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia: Two Worlds Enter, One Leaves! by Matthew Entin, Edward Kuehnel, Dan Schkade

Title: Two Worlds Enter, One Leaves!
Series: Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia
Author: Matthew Entin, Edward Kuehnel, Dan Schkade
Genres: Comics
Pages: Paperback, 26
Pub Date: May 19th 2018
Publisher: Suspicious Behavior Productions
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 3 Stars

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Synopsis: While professional wrestler Rory Landell drowns his sorrows off the grid, Earth is on the receiving end of a nasty surprise.

#Interview: Jacqueline West

Welcome to this weeks Interview.  This week we have an author that Anarece has totally fallen in love with her Elsewhere book series. And we are totally excited to read Last Things coming out next year! 

#WaitingOnWednesday with @JessLeake ‏@gloriacchao @angie_stanton

Welcome to this week's WOW! This week we have three amazing titles to share with you. And yes Through the White Wood and yes its not out until April!! Talk about an earily review!  

#ComicReview: Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia: Date with Destiny! by Edward Kuehnel, Matt Entin

Title: Date with Destiny!

Series: Invasion from Planet Wrestletopia 
Author: Edward Kuehnel,  Matt Entin, Mariah Huehner
Genres: Comics
Pages: Paperback, 36
Pub Date: August 6th 2017
Publisher: Suspicious Behavior Productions
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 3 Stars

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Synopsis: When a disgruntled professional wrestler declares himself “galactic champion of the universe” an alien planet of wrestlers sees it as an act of war! 

A whopping THIRTY-TWO page megaextravaganza of a comic book kicks off this series with art by Dan Schkade, colors by Marissa Louise and lettering by A Larger World Studios. Designed by Fred Chao. Created & Written by award-winning writers Matt Entin & Ed Kuehnel. 

#BookBlitz: Fool’s Folly by @OpheliaDragons @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Fool’s Folly
Ophelia Bell
(Fate’s Fools #2)
Publication date: December 18th 2018
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Don’t f*ck with Fate.
Deva Rainsong has found her dragon soul, but she still feels incomplete. As a chimera, bred in a lab from the blood of all four higher races and human blood combined, it will take no less than a fragment of a soul from all five races to complete hers.
Yet even as she starts to believe that she can finally be complete and all her powers awakened, her hopes are dashed when the second soul gift she receives comes with unexpected side effects. And to top it off Fate itself has redoubled efforts to seek out and destroy all the members of the bloodline.
Fate doesn’t like loose ends, and Deva’s very existence is upsetting the balance. Will she be able to strike a compromise or be forced to run to escape Fate’s wrath?

Top Ten Books I Hope To Recieve #Top10Tuesday via @ArtsyReaderGirl

Happy Christmas to those who celebrate!! And thank you so much for coming to check out this post today! Well today's prompt is Top Ten Books I Hope To Recieve. Please note that all covers connect to Amazon. 

#BookReview: Inventing Victoria by Tonya Bolden

Title: Inventing Victoria

Author: Tonya Bolden
Genres: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
Pages: Hardcover, 272
Pub Date: January 8th 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 1 DNF

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Synopsis: In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of a determined young woman who dares to seize the opportunity of a lifetime.

As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of her beginnings, but unwilling to accept the path currently available to her, Essie is trapped between the life she has and the life she wants.

Until she meets a lady named Dorcas Vashon, the richest and most cultured black woman she's ever encountered. When Dorcas makes Essie an offer she can't refuse, she becomes Victoria. Transformed by a fine wardrobe, a classic education, and the rules of etiquette, Victoria is soon welcomed in the upper echelons of black society in Washington, D. C. But when the life she desires is finally within her grasp, Victoria must decide how much of herself she is truly willing to surrender.

#BookBlitz: A Caribbean Christmas by Olivia Noble @XpressoTours #Giveaway

A Caribbean Christmas
Olivia Noble
Publication date: December 21st 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Catherine Duncan is down on her luck.
Life is stressful enough for the hardworking single mom when she gets unexpectedly fired from her job. Right before Christmas. But her sister is there to cheer her up, with a gift of a vacation to Jamaica, to take her mind off all the stress.
Enter Derek—tall, dark, handsome, and everything Cathy needs to refresh her weary spirits, and have some fun for the first time in forever.
But Derek is not all that he seems.
A businessman with an overbearing father, he ropes Cathy into a fake fiancée agreement that promises to end her financial troubles. Feeling skeptical, but desperate for the money, Cathy wonders if this sexy man will end up turning her Jamaican vacation into a perfect paradise, or a complete nightmare…

#TBRChallenge @WriteinBK @KatieMcGarry

Welcome to this weeks TBR Challenge!  Last weeks winner was ########,  and I can not wait to read it!  

#BookBlitz: Once Upon the Longest Night Collection @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Once Upon the Longest Night
Publication date: December 21st 2018
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance

The longest night. A vampire’s delight.

The winter solstice, a time of birth and rebirth, life and death, waning light and rising darkness. A time when those who flee the sun and crave the taste of blood find their greatest solace.
But one never knows what the longest night might hold.
Once Upon the Longest Night, a collection of adult paranormal romances, features eight novelettes of lovers and their battles against one of the greatest legends of our time: the vampire. A 15th-century seaman and the love of his life come face to face with a vengeful manjasang. In ancient Rome, a hunted priestess captured by a loyal centurion offers her aid to the enemy. With the help of a handsome Royal courier, a reluctant Romanian princess braves the curse flowing within her noble blood. Danger awaits when a vampire in the far reaches of North Dakota must endure the lethal cold to protect the woman she loves. And in a future New York, a broken general returns home for the Longest Night Ball where he meets a young male witch who might change his life forever.
This anthology combines vampire mythos and affairs of the heart with the sacred symbolism and magic of the winter season.
Sit back and let us tell you a tale. Welcome to the Longest Night.
Heat levels: Sweet to erotic.

#BookReview: Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan

Title: Watch Us Rise

Author: Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan 
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Feminism
Pages: Hardcover, 400
Pub Date: February 12th 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 1 Star DNF

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Synopsis: Jasmine and Chelsea are sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post everything online—poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial macroaggressions she experiences—and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by online trolls. When things escalate, the principal shuts the club down. Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices—and those of other young women—to be heard. 

#BookBlitz: Library of Absolution by @JDerrickAuthor @XpressoTours #Giveaway @CrimsonTreePub

Library of Absolution
Jennifer Derrick
(Legacy of the Book Mesmer, #1)
Published by: Crimson Tree Publishing
Publication date: December 17th 2018
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Alarick Brandon is the powerful wizard who operates The Keep, a refuge for magical people fleeing the persecution of the Ministry. A bitter realist, Alarick knows it’s only a matter of time until the Ministry succeeds in eradicating magic from the world—and exterminating all magical beings—so he has been careful to avoid any personal involvement with the people who pass through his sanctuary.
But when Elissa Stone arrives at The Keep, her village a smoldering ruin, and only her magical talent and a forbidden library left to her name, Alarick’s ordered world descends into chaos. Elissa is a Book Mesmer, a magical talent long believed extinct. She can enchant books, making them indestructible, unreadable…even deadly to unauthorized readers. But while her magic can secure a legacy for future magical generations, it’s not a skill that’s good in a fight, and certainly not one that Alarick sees any real use for. But there’s something compelling about a woman who defies the Ministry’s edicts against female literacy, and she seems determined to prove that knowledge is a weapon in its own right…
The first installment in an enticing new fantasy series by author Jennifer Derrick, The Library of Absolution is a compelling story of perseverance and determination in the face of persecution, in a Dark Age where hope is lost—and knowledge is the only thing left to fight for.

#BookRecommendations: The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles #1) by @laurieannforest

This week we have a fantasy book with so many magical creatures!! This is one of the BEST stories that I have read in sometime! 

#BookReview: Past Due for Murder (Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #3) by Victoria Gilbert

Title: Past Due for Murder

Series: Blue Ridge Library Mysteries #3
Author: Victoria Gilbert
Genres: Adult, Cozy Mystery 
Pages: Hardcover, 304
Pub Date: February 12th 2019
Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 3 Stars

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Synopsis: Has a curse fallen on the small town of Taylorsford, Virginia? After a young woman goes missing during a spring bonfire, library director Amy Webber must wade through the web of lies only to find a truth that she may not want to untangle. 

Spring has sprung in quaint Taylorsford, Virginia, and the mayor has revived the town’s long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. All seems well at first―but spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire. 

The local police cast a wide net to find the missing woman, but in a shocking turn of events, Amy’s swoon-worthy neighbor Richard Muir becomes a person of interest in the case. Not only is Richard the woman’s dance instructor, he also doesn’t have an alibi for the night the student vanished―or at least not one he’ll divulge, even to Amy. 

When the missing student is finally discovered lost in the mountains, with no memory of recent events―and a dead body lying nearby―an already disturbing mystery takes on a sinister new hue. Blessed with her innate curiosity and a librarian’s gift for research, Amy may be the only one who can learn the truth.

This title will be released on February 12, 2019.

#CoverReveal: The Prisoner by @kmodglinauthor @IndieSagePR #Giveaway

The Prisoner  by Kiersten Modglin Publication Date: December 20, 2018 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Read for FREE in KindleUnlimited: Amazon

Also in the Series: Book 1 - The Cleaner | Book 2 - The Healer | Book 3 - The Liar

Always the prisoner…now she’s the prison. Fiona Fiona Denali’s mind is a fortress of secrets. Things she can’t tell, people she must protect. She never wanted to hurt anyone, but they hurt her first. Now, she must protect the one person she can still count on—herself. On the run from anyone who knows her face, Fiona crosses paths with a man whose eyes seem just as haunted as her own. She could save him…but he could destroy her. It’s a choice she’s had before, but last time she chose wrong. Logan Logan North is done. His life is over. Eventually, they’ll catch him and kill him. And honestly, he can’t see much reason why that’d be a bad thing. The only thing keeping him moving, is the girl who seems to need him more than she realizes. He had no intention of ever helping anyone again. Not after the last time went so wrong. But, Fiona may make him rethink his plan. One last good deed before he surrenders to his fate. One last mistake before she gives into her dark nature.

#BookReview: Hand Lettering A to Z Workbook by Abbey Sy

Title: Hand Lettering A to Z Workbook

Author: Abbey Sy
Genres: Nonfiction, Hand Lettering
Pages: Paperback, 192
Pub Date: October 16th 2018
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 3 Stars

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Synopsis: Practice Makes Perfect!

Created by Abbey Sy, lettering expert and author of Hand Lettering A to Z, this must-have companion volume is a super-sized collection of drills, exemplars, and practice sheets for a variety of modern lettering styles, flourishes and other decorative elements, and motivational and inspirational quotes.

--Find essential how-tos for lettering with graphite and colored pencils, brush pens, fineline markers, and more
--Use the guided worksheets to try your hand at several modern styles, from simple to elaborate
--Progress to lettering beautiful and inspiring quotes (in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and other languages) that feature a mix of styles and tools
--Worksheet pages are perforated so they’re easy to remove and work on

Get a worksheet workout and learn, improve, or expand your lettering skills with Hand Lettering A to Z Workbook!

#TrailerRelease: Policy of Truth (Sacred Heart Continuum, #1) by @scarlettssong

Title: Policy of Truth

Author: Scarlett Holloway 
Series: Sacred Heart Continuum, #1
Pages: Kindle Edition, 309 pages
Pub Date: October 31st 2018
Publisher: Kingston Publishing Company

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Synopsis: After ending an abusive relationship, all Tamra ‘Durty’ Simons wanted was to reinvent herself and meeting Lace Beck gave her the opportunity to do just that.
However, a long journey of picking up the pieces didn't prepare her for Sting's appearance in her life.
Brett ‘Sting’ Jackson, was on a mission. Infiltrate the Death Angel MC and keep an eye on them. It was supposed to be simple─until Durty. Trying to gather intel was harder when falling for Durty seemed inevitable.
A foundation based on lies is sure to crumble, but when a rival club attacks the Angels, Sting and the Muerte Roja put their lives on the line to ensure Durty and the club is kept safe.
When the truth surfaces and passions ignite, will love be the only thing that survives?

#MyWeekInBooks

Hey, guys, this week went way fast again. I swear when the end of the year comes it speeds by like a freaking high-speed train!  So this week I will be doing this post a little differently.  I hope that you enjoy it!  

Please note all covers link to Amazon. 

#BookBlitz: Truck Stop by @AllieMcCormackK @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Truck Stop
Allie McCormack
Publication date: December 11th 2018 (audio)
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Teri Campbell is on the run, on a bus ride to nowhere. An unscheduled stop on the wind-blown plains of Wyoming leaves her at M&J’s Truck Stop… and in the arms of Mike Gallagher, the young trucker who appoints himself her protector, who understands her as no one else could. But will her new life and her new-found love be enough when events take an unexpected turn? …and can even Mike keep her safe from the past that threatens to reclaim her?

#BookReview: The Living (Warm Bodies #3) by Isaac Marion

Title: The Living
Series: Warm Bodies, #3

Author: Isaac Marion
Genres: Young Adult, Horror (Zombies)
Pages: eBook, 366
Pub Date: November 13th 2018
Publisher: Zola Books
Book Source:  Publisher
My Rating: 4 Stars

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Synopsis: The New York Times bestselling Warm Bodies Series has captivated readers in twenty-five languages, inspiring a major film and transcending the zombie genre to become something "poetic" (Library Journal) "highly original" (Seattle Times) and "ultimately moving" (Time Out London). Now the story of a dead man's search for life reaches its conclusion on a scale both epic and intimate.

Before he was a flesh-eating corpse, R was something worse. He remembers it all now, a life of greed and apathy more destructive than any virus, and he sees only one path to redemption: he must fight the forces he helped create. But what can R, Julie, and their tiny gang of fugitives do against the creeping might of the Axiom Group, the bizarre undead corporation that's devouring what's left of America?

It's time for a road trip.

No more flyover country. This time they'll face the madness on the ground, racing their RV across the wastelands as tensions rise and bonds unravel—because R isn't the only one hiding painful secrets. Everyone is on their own desperate search: for a kidnapped daughter, a suicidal mother, and an abused little boy with a gift that could save humanity... if humanity can convince him it's worth saving.

All roads lead home, to a final confrontation with the plague and its shareholders. But this is a monster that guns can't kill. A battle only one weapon can win...

#BookReview: Children of Jubilee (Children of Exile, #3) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Title: Children of Jubilee

Series: Children of Exile, #3
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Genres: Young Adult 
Pages: Hardback, 320
Pub Date: December 4th 2018
Publisher: Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers
Book Source: Publisher
My Rating: 4 Stars

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Synopsis: Kiandra has to use her wits and tech-savvy ways to help rescue Edwy, Enu, and the others from the clutches of the Enforcers in the thrilling final novel of the Children of Exile series from New York Times bestselling author, Margaret Peterson Haddix.

Since the Enforcers raided Refuge City, Rosi, Edwy, and the others are captured and forced to work as slave labor on an alien planet, digging up strange pearls. Weak and hungry, none of them are certain they will make it out of this alive.

But Edwy’s tech-savvy sister, Kiandra, has always been the one with all the answers, and so they turn to her. But Kiandra realizes that she can’t find her way out of this one on her own, and they all might need to rely on young Cana and her alien friend if they are going to survive.