Wednesday, September 20, 2023

#BookReview: The Last Immortal by Natalie Gibson






Synopsis: I am Lady Ramillia Winmoore, daughter of the very late Earl of Brooksberry, or I was lifetimes ago. I am an immortal, and this is my story. Do what you will with it, but I must warn this tale is not for the faint of heart. Highborn Victorian Lady that I was, my life was one of violence and cruelty.

Lady Ramillia Winmoore has suffered gaps in her memory her entire life. This darkness has proven to be a blessing until the day she awakens strapped to an examination table at the West Freeman Asylum for Lunatics. Imprisoned for the gruesome murder of her parents, she is forced to endure years of torture until salvation arrives in the form of a benefactor named Sir Julian Lawrence. Betrothed to her through an arranged marriage, Julian helps her gain freedom.

But appearances are deceiving and soon Ramillia learns the cost she must pay. The horrors she encounters in his household are far worse than the asylum. When he inducts her into a society of bloodthirsty, cruel immortals, she is forced to join them and accept their way of life.

Armed with talents she doesn’t know she has, Ramillia must break free of a prison she cannot see, kill an enemy who cannot die, and find a daughter who she cannot remember—all with the help of an ally she does not know.

In this chilling gaslight-era Gothic horror novel where paranormal powers are bred and collected, friends and foes are not always what they seem when immortality is at stake.

This title will be released January 23, 2024.

#BookReview: All Our Hidden Gifts (All Our Hidden Gifts #1) by Caroline O'Donoghue @WalkerBooksYA






Synopsis: Maeve’s strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card—and then disappears. 

After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school. But when Maeve’s ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn’t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.

Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily’s gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find—even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. Set in an Irish town where the church’s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.


#BookRelease: Treasured by Alayna R. Gallea @RRBookTours1


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Treasured (The Binding Chronicles #3) Publication Date: September 20, 2023 Genre: Romantic Fantasy/ Vampires 🦇Vampires 🦇Magical Bindings 🦇Arranged Marriage 🦇Only One 🦇Tormented Hero In a world where darkness reigns, the cost of love is eternal. Eleyta’s throne belongs to the most powerful vampire, and it’s up to Sebastian and Luna to challenge the queen and save the realm. Unfortunately, that won't be easy. Having survived Queen Marguerite’s deadly tournament, they are fugitives. Despite the peril lurking in the shadows, escape is not an option. The prophecy is hanging over their heads. The darkness is here, and the red moon will soon rise. Sebastian’s bond with his Maker must be broken, and they need to learn the Tether's secrets before time runs out. As unyielding darkness threatens to consume them, Sebastian and Luna face their greatest challenge. The queen must be stopped, no matter the cost. Even if it's death. This is the third and final book in The Binding Chronicles. The series should be read in order (Tethered, Tormented, Treasured). This series takes place in the same world as Of Earth and Flame. It can be enjoyed on its own or alongside The Ithenmyr Chronicles. NOTE: This series is upper YA/NA and will have moderate steam as the series progresses. There are some instances of violence, language, and mature situations. Recommended for ages sixteen and up. Add to Goodreads Available on Amazon



#Teaser: Wild Asses of the Mojave Desert by @LisAnnaLangston @RABTBookTours





 

New Adult – Literary – Contemporary fiction – Women’s fiction

Date Published:10-20-2023

Publisher: Mapleton Press


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This novel about friendship, nostalgia, and finding oneself is funny and tender, moving and poetic, while standing firmly in hope and love. The characters are thinkers, overthinkers really, who are trying to find their way by asking the deep questions of life with wide-eyed wonder and talking through life's uncertainties. They fearlessly confront the choices they've made, examining their desires and their mistakes. The result is a smart, engaging novel depicting a young woman's search for the people and place she will call home.


A RECOMMENDED read by the US Review

#BookBlitz: Hott Shot by @serenabellbooks @XpressoTours $25 Amazon gift card


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Serena Bell
Publication date: September 19th 2023
Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance

Beauty salon… and the Beast

Quinn: Working at the family wedding resort wasn’t exactly on my Bingo card. But it’s the only way for my siblings and me to get our grandfather’s inheritance, so here I am, staffing the Hott Spot Spa and Salon front desk. It’s an absurd gig for a man who makes Oscar the Grouch look like a people-person.

Still, I’m a hard worker. I’ve made a fortune off my scientific discoveries, and if I can engineer groundbreaking drugs, I can do anything, right? Not according to Sonya Rossi, the spa’s smoking hot and relentlessly perky manager. My grumpy approach is testing even sunshine-y Sonya’s patience. Meanwhile, I’m not sure whether I want to rain on her parade—or kiss the smile off her face.

Then the universe throws another curveball, putting us under the same roof. The closer Sonya gets, the more I like it—and her. I want to get to know her better and let her see the side of me I never show people. Until now, I’ve only believed in what I can touch, sense, and prove. I definitely don’t believe in love… but Sonya’s making me wish I could.

A spicy, grumpy-sunshine, opposites attract, under-one-roof, forced proximity standalone romantic comedy set in the beloved small town of Rush Creek.

#BookReview: A Crown So Cursed (The Nightmare-Verse #3) by @ElleOnWords @FierceReads






Synopsis: Alice is doing her best to recover from her last boss battle, but members of her crew start having these... dreams. And they’re all the same dream: visions of a dark past―and an even darker future. It seems the evil in Wonderland may not be as defeated as they’d hoped.

When word spreads of an encroaching army of Nightmares unlike any ever seen, Alice finds she may have to step between the coming darkness and the mortal world once more. But this time is different. This time, the monsters aren’t waiting for her on the other side of the Veil.

They're in her own back yard.


#BookReview: The Last True Templar (Tales of the Lawless Land #2) by @BoydMorrison, Beth Morrison @HoZ_Books






Synopsis: A Perilous Quest. A Deadly Legacy.
Italy, 1351. English knight Gerard Fox and the resourceful Willa have come through a death-defying journey across war-torn Europe. Now looking towards their future together, they must first find a way to reconcile with their difficult pasts.

In a small village between Florence and Siena, Fox and Willa are caught up in a deadly ambush. After rescuing the enigmatic woman who is the target of the attack, they take refuge in her opulent villa and learn her heartbreaking story – a tale of loss, deception... and a burning desire for freedom.

Soon, Fox and Willa are involved in a perilous quest to save her family's legacy... and to do so, they will have to solve a mystery that points the way to the fabled lost treasure of the Knights Templar.


#BookReview: The Lucky List by Rachael Lippincott @rchllipp





 
Synopsis: Emily and her mum were always lucky.

But Emily’s mum’s luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right since.

Now, the summer before her senior year, things are worse than ever – Emily has wrecked things with her boyfriend, Matt, and her dad is selling the house she grew up in and giving her mum’s belongings away. The only person she has to talk to is Blake, a girl she barely knows since she and her dad moved back to town five seconds ago.

But that’s when Emily finds the list – her mum’s senior year summer bucket list – buried in the back of her closet. When Blake suggests that Emily take it on as a challenge, the two set off on a journey to tick each box and help Emily face her fears over losing her connection to her mum. As she starts to feel closer to her mother, so too does Emily’s bond with Blake deepen into something she wasn't expecting.

And suddenly Emily must face another fear: accepting the secret part of herself she never got a chance to share with the person who knew her best.


Tuesday, September 19, 2023

#CoverReReveal: Breeze of Life by Kirsty Dallas @GiveMeBooksPR







Title: Breeze of Life
Author: Kirsty Dallas
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Friends to Lovers/Sports Romance
Cover Design: Kirsty Dallas
Release Date: March 17, 2014


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Bree ‘Breeze’ Delany never imagined her life could sink so deep, that such intense sorrow could steal her away from everything she knew and loved. She was now a shell of the woman she once was, and all it had taken was one little word, cancer.

It took just one person to pull Breeze out of the darkness. Harper and Bree had been best friends since childhood, and what began as a teenage crush, quickly became something much deeper. Determined to show Breeze the beauty in life, no matter how long or short it might be, Harper takes Breeze on the road trip of a lifetime.

Screw happily ever afters, perhaps life was meant to be lived with happily ever nows.

#BookTour: Mantle of the World Ruler by Kate Gateley @RRBookTours1





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Mantle of the World Ruler (The Lost Wells Trilogy #2) Publication Date: January 2023 Genre: Epic Fantasy An ancient curse broken, a new prophecy foretold, and a grimoire of dark Druidic magic. After a year of unimaginable violence, magic, and an all-consuming love that has followed her through countless incarnations, Julia Harrison has not only come into her own as a magic Bearer-far surpassing those women in her bloodline who came before her-but is about to start down a path that can end in only one of two ways: with her fulfilling her prophesized role as Sovereign, chalice of the World Ruler; or with the death of everyone and everything she holds dear at the hands of Cassius Longinus, The Child of Rome, in his brutal and inexorable quest to finally achieve true immortality. Mantle of the World Ruler-Book Two of the Lost Well Trilogy-begins directly after the events of its predecessor, and with it, author Kate Gateley draws the reader right back into the romantic, magical, and often terrifying world of Bearers and Wielders, Knaves and Wraiths, and Domhnall O'Brien, cursed by choice to follow his love through one life after another until they can save each other at last. 

#ReleaseBlitz for What Comes After by @AuthorAKEvans and @GiveMeBooksPR







Title: What Comes After
Series: Road Trip Romance #15
Author: A.K. Evans
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Second Chance/Friends to Lovers
Release Date: September 19, 2023


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One moment can change everything.

Theo McCormick knew that better than anyone. His first audition, a breakthrough movie role, and more awards than he can hold in his arms are evidence of that.

But that was before.

One moment can change everything.

Devyn Jade knew that better than anyone. Losing both of her parents as a kid and a painful goodbye make up some of the most profound memories in her life.

But that was before.

When Theo gets a call with devastating news, he rushes back to his Tennessee hometown to find the girl he left behind fighting for her life.

And that was the moment that changed it all. Because seeing Devyn again after so many years puts everything into perspective, and Theo’s determined to fix what comes after.