#ReleaseBlitz: Scenes from a Song by @susan_sloate @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Music Fiction

Date Published: 09-30-2025

Publisher: Covfefe Press

 

 For anyone who's ever said, "They're playing my song!"

 

On Halloween Eve, 1961, in his dingy Bronx walkup apartment, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton hears the opening notes of a song in his head. Jimmy’s still mourning his firefighter father, who taught him to play the guitar but recently died in a house fire, leaving his family destitute. Jimmy takes this song, about all he misses from his life now, to the New York amusement park where he works after school. There, he meets Mark Morgan, a rebellious teen with his own band, who eventually invites Jimmy to join them. And the rest is rock'n roll history...

The GooseBumps become a worldwide phenomenon, and the songs they write and sing together become the backbone of rock musical history. And the song Jimmy first heard on Halloween, "Wrapped in Gauze", becomes the song that not only comforts him in that terrible time but also comforts others: Victoria, recently divorced and dealing with an unthinkable family tragedy; Carolyn, whose final flippant words to someone in pain can't be taken back; and Jack, battling back from unimaginable loss with the help of his cheeky therapist and a song he thinks he hates.

 

SCENES FROM A SONG is the story of a song that makes us smile, that breaks our hearts, that stays with us forever, and the very special band that started it all.

#ReleaseBlitz for Scarred Heir by @@ellajade818 @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Scarred Heir

Series: Cruel Empire #4

Author: Ella Jade

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Forced Proximity

Release Date: October 1, 2025

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A Union Under Siege…

With my father undercover and my brother on the run, I’m left to save our family from a brutal enemy who will stop at nothing to bring us down. The struggle to keep the Accetti empire afloat becomes more complicated than any of us thought.

I don’t have time for distractions but when a stunning stranger crosses my path, I unleash my dark desires on her not realizing she’s more trouble than she’s worth. She begs for my help to save her brother, so I grant it with the understanding that it’s going to cost her — more than she could ever imagine. She belongs to me now but what will holding her captive cost me?

The more time I spend with her, the more convoluted our arrangement becomes, especially when a dangerous adversary seeks revenge. She has the power to blow my world apart… if I let her. Releasing her may be the safest move but will it be the right one in my unforgiving world.

This book contains dark themes that may be disturbing to some readers. Scarred Heir is book 4 in the Cruel Empire Series but can be read as a standalone. The series is set up in three trilogies. You can begin the series with Ruthless Oath.

#BookReview: Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay by @katzndobs Tracy Dobmeier & Wendy Katzman

Synopsis:
A widowed and grieving young novelist believes her words create realities—both tragic and charmed—in a hopeful and surprising novel about family, newfound love, and moving on.

Four years after her husband Sam’s tragic death mirrored a fatal plotline in her debut novel, Thea Packer hasn’t written another word, afraid that what she writes could come true again. Resigned to raising her young daughter in her in-laws’ guesthouse, Thea is on the verge of abandoning her literary career when inspiration strikes.

Her new book is a fairy-tale romance featuring a long-lost astronaut who miraculously returns home to his family, with the hero loosely drawn from Thea’s memories of Sam. Thea considers the fantasy a harmless way to process her grief.

That is, until a charismatic man walks into her life—and he’s an astronaut.

Thea can’t believe it’s happening again. Or is it? Her mother-in-law doesn’t think so—she sees only a woman increasingly detached from reality. Now, as coincidences between Thea’s writing and reality pile up, Thea must unravel the secrets of her past and tackle her grief head-on before she loses more than she imagined.

#BookReview: Wooing the Witch Queen (Queens of Villainy #1) by Stephanie Burgis

Synopsis:
In a Gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests, three magical queens form an uneasy alliance to protect their lands from invasion…and love turns their world upside down.

Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic.

When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well…

Little does Saskia know that the "wizard" she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he's in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?

#CoverReveal for Phoenix by @sybil.bartel @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Phoenix

Series: Paragon Operations #1

Author: Sybil Bartel

Genres: Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Kidnap, Navy Royalty/SEAL

Enemies to Lovers, Age Gap, Billionaire

Cover Design: Clarise Tan, CT Creations

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

Release Date: November 14, 2025

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Operative.

Agent.

Tertia Optio.

I was whoever I needed to be, as long as I stayed invisible. That was my one overriding mission. Anonymity. It kept me breathing.

Your breath, I didn’t care about.

If you crossed my path, you’d be as dead as my old life. An existence so far gone, I no longer remembered it.

Until she stepped into the darkness behind me.

PHOENIX is the first standalone book in the thrilling Paragon Operations series by USA Today bestselling author, Sybil Bartel! If you’re ready to step into a whole new world of romantic suspense, come meet Phoenix and the darkly dominant Tier One Operatives at Paragon Operations who will make your e-reader combust!

#ReleaseBlitz for Unapologetic Obsession by @authordrethi @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Unapologetic Obsession

A Twisted Titanic Story

Series: Tales of Obsession #3

Author: Drethi A.

Genre: Dark Romance

Tropes: Student/Professor, Amnesia, Stalker Hero

Shy Heroine, Interracial Romance

Release Date: October 1, 2025

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Tabula Rasa—A clean slate.

Everyone deserves one, no?

Whether I want it or not, that’s exactly what I receive—a reset.

My name is Rose.

No last name.

No family to anchor me.

No one to claim me as their own.

I woke up behind a dumpster with no memories, just nightmares featuring a faceless man. My life has been erased like chalk dusted on a blackboard. Desperate and hungry, I sneak onto a boat, only for the owner to catch me red-handed.

His name is Dr. Caledon Maxwell.

He looks as regal as his name suggests.

Arrogant.

Unattainable.

Drop dead gorgeous.

Drop dead rich.

I am both terrified and fascinated by the man. I tell him I set out to uncover my past, but Dr. Maxwell has other ideas.

Forget the past.

Look forward to the future.

With each passing day, I'm losing control around him. As the boat sails further away, I stop caring about the past as long as I have a future with him.

That is until my past comes crashing back, and I realize the man from my nightmares might be closer than I thought.

Unapologetic Obsession is part of an interconnected series but can be read as a standalone.

For optimal enjoyment, read the first two books in the Tales of Obsession Series.

Caden Maxwell isn’t a typical romance hero. This is a dark romance with dubious situations. Some readers might find the contents of this book offensive or triggering.

#CoverReveal for the War of Hearts Duet by @natashaknightromance @GiveMeBooksPR

War of Hearts Duet

Author: Natasha Knight

Genre: Dark Mafia Romance

Cover Design: Coverluv

#BookReview: The Wildest Things by Andrea Hannah

Synopsis:
In this sapphic Snow White retelling, if Snow is to save her kingdom from being ravaged by the Blight, she’ll have to kill the Evil Queen’s daughter…if she doesn’t fall in love with her first.

When her glass coffin unexpectedly shatters, Snow White awakens to anything but a dream. The land is rotting. The animals have mutated. In the twenty years that have passed since Snow bit into the poisoned apple, the kingdom of Roanfrost has transformed from a luscious wild land to a blight-ravaged nightmare. In search of answers and a way to restore her kingdom to its former glory, Snow sets out on a dangerous journey that will test the strength she never knew she had.

Friends will become foes.

New alliances will form.

The Queen with the blood red lips will stop at nothing to seize her power as well as her heart.

If Snow has any chance to survive and restore not only her kingdom, but all of Garedenne, her only option is to become the Seasonkeeper and access the life-giving magic that will heal the plague. But the path to becoming the Seasonkeeper is more treacherous than she could ever imagine—because the wild things have awakened and Snow’s darker impulses yearn to set them free.

#BookReview: The Plot Twist by Eleanor Goymer

Synopsis:
This love story is a work in progress…When romcom author Allie Edwards crosses paths with bestselling crime novelist – aka publishing dinosaur – Martin Clark at a party, they discover they both have crippling writer’s block, overdue manuscripts and precisely zero words to show to their respective editors.

With deadlines looming, Allie and Martin decide to switch plots and tell each other’s stories. In the writing process, Allie not only gains a father-figure in Martin, but also meets gorgeous events caterer Will, the answer to the leading man-shaped hole in her life and her lack of spicy material.

Caught between love and her career, what could possibly go wrong?

#CoverReveal: You Don’t Belong Here by @dmsiciliano

You Don’t Belong Here
D.M. Siciliano
Publication date: October 13th 2025
Genres: Adult, Horror, Paranormal, Suspense

A girl who feels invisible finally faces her worst fear on her sixteenth birthday and hastily makes a dark deal.

An old man returns to the same place every year on the anniversary of his wife’s death, to have one last moonlit dance with her.

A woman’s health concerns are ignored, and it leads to global chaos.

A young woman goes home to bury her father and sell his house but finds that the home is no longer hers.

An old man with Alzheimer’s becomes increasingly lost in his own house, which seems to be doing its own forgetting.

Two young girls find a Ouija board, thinking they’re communicating with a deceased relative, but find something much more cunning.

A woman, grieving the loss of her baby, takes a trip to a remote cabin in Tahoe. Her worried sister goes after her and isn’t prepared for what she finds.

A woman’s drive through California’s winding roads leads her to a perilous and sinister discovery lurking in the woods.

A woman takes a job as a nanny for two troublesome kids, only to find that the children aren’t the problem.

#ReleaseBlitz for Faking the Pass by @trutaylorauthor

Title: Faking the Pass

Series: Lowe Bros #1

Author: Tru Taylor

Genre: Steamy Small Town Romantic Comedy

Tropes: Football Romance, Fake Marriage

First Love/Second Chance, One Bed

Release Date: September 5, 2025

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Fake marry the smokin’ hot NFL quarterback who dumped me in high school? Hard pass.

…Or it would be, if my Hollywood disaster of an ex-fiancé wasn’t trying to destroy my career—and bankrupt me in the process.

Cue Presley Lowe.

Big-time quarterback. Bigger ego. Even bigger... contract.

The boy who shattered my heart, then dared to somehow get even hotter with age.

💍 He says a fake marriage will solve both our problems.

I say he’s lost his mind.

But I’m broke, backed into a corner, and out of options.

So now I’m wearing Presley’s ring, taking couple-selfies, and sleeping one wall away from the man who gave me my first heartbreak—and my last good kiss.

I pretend not to notice when he walks around shirtless.

He pretends he doesn’t remember exactly how I like to be kissed.

We’re both lying.

But it’s all temporary. Totally fake.

Right?

So why does every look he gives me scream mine?

And why am I starting to feel like there’s nothing I wouldn’t give to keep hearing him say, my wife?

What happens when your fake husband is also the boy you never got over?

🏈 Faking the Pass is a fun and flirty small town sports romcom ideal for fans of feel-good romance with big banter, steamy tension, irresistible ex-boyfriends, and marriage of convenience forced-proximity fun with emotional depth and just the right amount of heat. It will appeal to readers of romantic comedy by Pippa Grant, Lucy Score, Megan Quinn, Melanie Harlow, Lauren Blakely, and Abby Jimenez.

💕The perfect next read for you if you love these tropes:

• Fake Marriage
• NFL Quarterback Hero/ high school ex
• First love, second chance
• Runaway Bride
• One Bed / Forced Proximity
• Tight-knit Family of Football-playing brothers
• Swoon-worthy, Heartfelt, Slow burn Romance

#BookReview: Spiral (Off the Ice #2) by @authorbalkhabra

Synopsis:
AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

He’s on edge while she’s en pointe in this fake-dating sports romance from the author of the smash hit Collide.

Elias Westbrook, a newly drafted hockey player for the Toronto Thunder, is facing the challenges of fame and media scrutiny. With a growing fan base and too many expectations on his shoulders, he’s struggling to make his first career goal. The tabloids are reporting on his every move, including which woman he was last seen with, but all he wants to do is escape the spotlight.

Enter from stage left Sage Beaumont, an aspiring ballerina with dreams of joining the Aurora Ballet Theatre, but her lack of popularity online leaves her at a major disadvantage for securing the lead role. When Sage finds herself with the perfect opportunity to make her dreams come true by fake dating Elias, she takes her shot.

Soon enough, the flimsy fake-dating rules they set in place fall away in the face of their sizzling connection. But before things spiral out of control, Sage and Elias will have to decide if they’re willing to take the leap together or if they'll call it quits.

#BookReview: Order of Swans (The Blue Swan duology #1) by Jude Deveraux

Synopsis:
In this spellbinding, fantasy-rich novel, a woman is swept into a world where she has the power to alter fairy tales, and change a kingdom’s destiny…

To Kaley Arens, a PhD student and expert in folklore, fairy stories have always had a power and an allure beyond mere entertainment.

It’s only when Kaley accompanies her lifelong friend Jobi on a visit to his home that she realizes how much she still has to learn. Bellis isn’t the remote island that she believed it to be. It’s another world—a stunningly beautiful and seductive one, with its own royalty, its own rules, and inhabitants who breathe life into the tales she was taught were fiction.

Kaley’s presence is no simple holiday. She has a mysterious connection with Jobi and with Bellis, and abilities that may help determine this world’s fate. Tasked with locating a lost prince, Kaley and her companions—the enigmatic Tanek, a member of the Order of Swans, and Sojee, Kaley's colossal bodyguard—journey through a land both thrilling and terrifying, where the uncanny and the familiar go hand in hand.

But in fairy tales, heroes and villains are easy to discern. Here, nothing is quite as it seems. And though Kaley is discovering that she can change the outcome of the fairy tales she knows so well, her own story is unfolding in ways impossible to predict, with a destiny she could never have foretold…

#AudioBookTour: Trailridge by @kevinwolfstoryteller @RABTBookTours

Mystery

Date Published: Aug 1, 2025

Narrator: Greg O'Donahue

Run Time: 6 hours 24 minutes

 

Guy Hogan and his wife planned to share their dream home in Colorado but cancer his took her from him. The mountains became his refuge and each day he hoped the next cast of his flyrod will chase away his loneliness.

Then he finds a man’s body in his favorite trout stream.

Learning why the man died becomes a quest to fill his emptiness. Hogan befriends a young woman as empty as he. Their path leads to a ring of poachers killing elk for their antlers, a break neck car chase across the twist and turns of the highest paved road in the United States, and the fury of a mountain flash flood.

But the young woman is not what she seems. Will her deadly secrets force Hogan to become the very thing he despises? The challenge is as treacherous as Trail ridge Road.

#BookTour: Sword Brethren by #JonByrne @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Book 1 of the Northern Crusader Chronicles

Historical Adventure

Date Published: 11-28-2024

Publisher: The Book Guild

1242. Wounded and captured after the Battle on the Ice, English knight Richard Fitz Simon becomes the unlikely guest of Prince Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod. Curious about his prisoner, Alexander commands his scholar to record Richard’s tale.

Richard’s story begins in 1203, when betrayal shatters his path to knighthood and drives him from England to the merchant city of Lübeck. There, entangled in an illicit affair and the cutthroat salt trade, he finds only temporary refuge. Fleeing once again, he joins the Livonian Brothers of the Sword—a militant order sworn to spread Christendom across the pagan Baltic.

Amid the cold austerity of Riga’s commandery and the looming threat of enemy tribes, Richard must battle not just for survival, but for meaning in a life shaped by violence, doubt, and fractured loyalties. When a pagan army threatens to overrun their outpost, he faces a final reckoning—one that will test his faith, his honor, and the limits of his courage.

#BookTour: Twenty of Two the Infamous They by #RolandHughes @RABTBookTours

Thriller/Espionage

Date Published: 07-04-2025

Publisher: Logikal Solutions

In life, the journey is the reward. Old Timer certainly has had a journey through this life. For nearly forty years he has been both a geek and an assassin. Despite someone at his company having given him the contract decades ago, nobody there actually knew what he did, just that the client paid. Had he told anyone about it, especially his coworkers, they would have laughed in his face.

Since late January, 1992, he has kept a secret . . . and souvenirs. Secrets were common currency in his world, but souvenirs were against company policy and strictly forbidden.

Presented as a novel. Any names, dates, events or places that happen to exist in the world you know are strictly coincidental. Take the journey that is about to start. Find out how Ukraine saved the world from nuclear war in 1992 and what they did is still saving it today because nobody ever found out.

Some readers will never think about food the same way again.

Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!

bon appétit

#BookTour: One Year in Paris by @horsnells @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 

Contemporary Romance

Date Published: 07-25-2025

Publisher: Lipstick Publishing

When Annalise Garner arrives in Paris to study art, she’s chasing quiet—far from her Southern roots, far from expectations. What she doesn’t expect is to meet Jett Hunter, a star American soccer player with green eyes, a bruised past, and a future under a constant spotlight.

Jett lives for the game. Annelise lives for the canvas. But when fate intertwines their worlds on a rain-soaked street in the City of Lights, neither is prepared for the slow-burn connection that follows.

As their hearts tangle between café tables and gallery walls, the intrusion of the press and career choices threaten to pull them apart.

Jett faces pressure to return to New York.

Annalise wrestles with who she is beyond her art.

And just when they start to find their rhythm, a devastating injury changes everything.

Set against the romance of Paris and the quiet beauty of rebuilding a life, One Year in Paris is a tender story of love that endures the noise, finds strength in the silence, and blooms where it’s least expected.

#BookTour: Built To Last by @david_amerland @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Any Stage Of Life

Nonfiction / Fitness and Wellness

Date Published: 01-03-2025

Publisher: New Line Books

Discover the Secret to Lifelong Fitness.

Imagine a simple, science-backed plan that helps you build strength, boost your energy, and improve your mood every single day-no matter your age. "Built to Last" is your complete blueprint for transforming both body and mind, making it easy to overcome fitness challenges and truly thrive.

Inside this book, you'll find:

 

- 84 Easy-to-Follow Workouts: Each exercise is designed to be effective and accessible, whether you're new to fitness or looking to break through a plateau.

- Science-Backed Strategies: Learn the latest techniques from exercise science, longevity research, and neuroscience to get the most out of every workout.

- Stress Management and Habit Building: Discover practical tips to manage stress, form lasting healthy habits, and stay active even when life gets busy.

 

With clear, actionable advice that fits seamlessly into your daily routine, "Built to Last" takes the guesswork out of getting fit. This book isn't just about exercise-it's about creating a balanced, healthier lifestyle that empowers you to live your best life.

 

Your journey to becoming stronger, healthier, and happier starts now. Let "Built to Last" be your guide every step of the way.

#BookTour: Selected Misdemeanors by @suewilliamsilverman #RABTBookTours #Giveaway

 

Essays at the Mercy of the Reader

Creative Nonfiction; Essay Collection; Flash-Essay Collection

Date Published: September 1, 2025

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

The essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleeting moments that defined the course of her life, such as a fraught family vacation; an evening watching the Chippendale dancers’ extravaganza; a Pac-Man-and-bourbon-fueled rumination on failed relationships; and the way melodramatic movies such as Rome Adventure shape an adolescent’s idea of love. Ranging from short to flash to micro length, these emotionally courageous writings imbue minimalist forms with maximalist emotions and an unrepentant, no-holds-barred attitude. Each action explored in this collection produces the Butterfly Effect—seemingly quotidian events rippling into emotional tsunamis.

#BookBlitz: Skating and Fake Dating by @elliehallauthor @XpressoTours #Giveaway

Skating and Fake Dating
Ellie Hall
(Love in Maple Falls, #4))
Publication date: September 3rd 2025
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Sports

I’m pretending to be his stable girlfriend while he plays my successful boyfriend. But now faking feels a lot like falling.

Bailey
I’m a walking contradiction—professional on the job, a hot mess at home, and working my “I’ve got this” smile until my cheeks ache while hiding my hobbies: making maple butter and finding a husband. With my perfect sister’s recent engagement, I’m desperate to avoid Mom’s pitying looks and matchmaking attempts.

Carson
I used to be hockey’s laid-back southern charmer until a crushing rejection from my high school sweetheart transformed me into a workaholic. When I’m unexpectedly traded to a new team, rumors circulate about whether the gentleman wingman lost his edge. I’ll do whatever it takes to prove them wrong.

Bailey
When our worlds collide after a dessert disaster, we come up with a mutually beneficial solution to our respective woes: a fake relationship. The rules are simple: I get a “successful” boyfriend for family events. He gets a “stable” girlfriend for team image. No feelings, no complications, and a definite expiration date.

Carson
But between posing as a couple at the fall festival, midnight maple butter-making sessions, trying to keep our stories straight, and undeniable chemistry, what started as a convenient lie is beginning to feel inconveniently real. As the clock runs down on our arrangement, we’ll have to decide: walk away when the final buzzer sounds, or take a shot at the love neither of us saw coming.

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Skating and Fake Dating is a heartwarming hockey romcom featuring Bailey and ‘Bama who are perfect for each other in all the most imperfect ways, plus, small-town charm, family shenanigans, and a guaranteed happily ever after sweeter than homemade maple butter blondies.

Welcome back to Maple Falls—the small town where hockey players fall in love! This is a multi-author series of seven full-length books that could be read as standalones, but we think you’ll enjoy them best in order.

Fake-Off with Fate by Whitney Dineen
Offside and Off Limits by Kate O’Keeffe
Checking Mr. Wrong by Anne Kemp
Skating and Fake Dating by Ellie Hall
Goalie and the Girl Next Door by Elsie Woods
Soulmates and Slapshots by Melissa Baldwin
The Icing on the Cake by Grace Worthington