#BookReview: Net Force: Dark Web by Jerome Preisler

Title: Net Force: Dark Web

Author: Jerome Preisler

Published:  November 26, 2019
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Pages: 704

Synopsis: The return of the cutting-edge thriller series Net Force , created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik and written by Jerome Preisler.

The number one threat to our nation’s security is in cyberspace. The new US president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organization can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack.

Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested, unproven and officially unnamed, Net Force’s elite group of cyber experts and field operatives must lead the fight against the ongoing waves of hacks while tracking down the mastermind. Their failure could mean global catastrophe. Success may lead them to become the highest-level security agency in the United States.

A story that seems ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Net Force: Dark Web relaunches one of the most prescient thriller series at a time when cybersecurity is more vital than ever. 

#BookBlitz: Riddled Prophecy by L. Marlene Payne @RABTBookTours

Historical Fiction, Short Stories

Date Published: March 2019

Publisher: Page Publishing

Riddled Prophecy is a fascinating collection of short stories spanning 1200 years. The first five are historical fiction, all based on genealogical information from the author’s ancestors. The next eight are autobiographical and are arranged chronologically. The last one springs from a love of horses.

#ReleaseBoost for The Italian by @TLSwanAuthor @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Italian

Author: T L Swan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 28, 2019

Blurb

They say there are three things you should do at least once in your life:

Dance like nobody’s watching.

Travel the world.

And fall hopelessly in love.

I aimed to do all three.

I went to Italy to find myself.

But he found me.

It was like a story book, our eyes met across a crowded room.

He asked me if I needed help reading the menu.

We ate, we laughed, we danced, and I fell.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan, and we parted ways.

Two years later, our eyes meet across a room again.

Only this time I was on a date with another man.

He went crazy in a jealous fit.

But the man I met then is different now.

He’s colder, harder, and officially one of the most powerful men in Italy.

Dare I say it, even more enticing.

But if you dance with the devil, you get burnt.

And the fires in Italy are scalding hot.

#BookReview: Queen of Vampire Hearts by Jeanette Rose

Title: Queen of Vampire Hearts (Fated Loves #1)

Author: Jeanette Rose

Published:  August 17, 2019
Publisher: Indie
Pages: 381

Synopsis: A Woman Fleeing Persecution…
Phoebe Atreus is a witch on the run, her carefully crafted rules have kept her alive for the last decade, each one a product of a hard learned lesson. Rule Number One? Trust No One. She’s been betrayed one time too many to put her faith in anyone else’s hands. Even if the legendary vampire king might be the one person who could protect her from the enemies always one step behind.

A Man Whose Abandonment Issues Span Thousands of Years…
Lucien Silvano has been king of the vampires for the last three thousand years, he’s fought in wars that have been reduced to legend, rescued damsels in distress, seduced said damsels, and moved on. Immortal life has become a never-ending battle against boredom. Nothing has truly stirred his interest in years, except her. She’s the exception to every rule, his Queen, his mate, the one-person Fate declared to be his. The problem? She wants nothing to do with him.

What could possibly go wrong? 
Phoebe refuses to share her past with Lucien, pushing him away at every opportunity, yet unable to resist the chemistry that explodes whenever they are together. Forced back to his castle in Romania to live as his Queen, she starts to forget the rules that have kept her safe… until the secrets Lucien has been hiding remind her why she created them in the first place.

#BookReview: Tidelands (The Fairmile #1) by Philippa Gregory

Title: Tidelands (The Fairmile #1)

Author: Philippa Gregory

Published:  August 20th 2019
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages: 455

Synopsis: The #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the great storytellers of our time” (SanFrancisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.

Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands —the marshy landscape of the south coast.

Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.

Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the time of witch mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.

It is dangerous for a woman to be different.

#BookReview: Forest of Secrets (Warriors #3) by Erin Hunter

Title: Forest of Secrets (Warriors #3)

Author: Erin Hunter

Published:  October 5, 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins 
Pages: 312

Synopsis: Allegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest. 



With tensions so delicately balanced, former friends can become enemies overnight, and some cats are willing to kill to get what they want.


Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of brave ThunderClan warrior Redtail. 



But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that some believe would be better left hidden.