#BookReview: All's Fair in Love and War (Miss Prentice's Protegees #1) by Virginia Heath

A new Regency romp of a series, about governess who believes in cultivating joy in her charges, clashes with the children's uncle who hired her, only to find herself falling in love.

When the flighty older sister of former naval captain, Henry Kincaid, decides on a whim to accompany her explorer husband on an expedition to Egypt, he finds himself unwittingly left in the lurch with her three unruly children and her giant, mad dog. With no clue how to manage the little rascals, a busy career at the Admiralty that requires all of his attention, and no idea when his sister is coming back, Harry has to hire an emergency governess to ensure that everything in his ordered house continues to run shipshape. In desperation, he goes to Miss Prentice’s School for Girls prepared to pay whatever it takes to get a governess quick sharp to bring order to the chaos.

Thanks to her miserable, strict upbringing, fledgling governess Georgina Rowe does not subscribe to the ethos that children should be seen and not heard. She believes childhood should be everything that hers wasn’t, filled with laughter, adventure, and discovery. Thankfully, the three Pendleton children she has been tasked with looking after are already delightfully bohemian and instantly embrace her unconventional educational ethos. Their staid, stickler-for-the-rules uncle, however, is another matter entirely…

#CoverReveal for Someone Knows by Vi Keeland @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Someone Knows

Author: Vi Keeland

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Emily Bestler Books

Genre: Standalone Thriller

Release Date: June 17, 2025

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As a college English professor, Elizabeth looks forward to the start of each new semester teaching her creative writing seminar. At least until she reads chapter one of The Reckoning, a tale about a high school senior who has an affair with her teacher. To anyone else it would be the beginning of a great page-turner, but to Elizabeth it is the beginning of the end.

She knows this story. It’s all familiar because she lived it. The girl in the story was her best friend Jocelyn, and Elizabeth knows exactly how the story will end—with the teacher dead. Because she was the one who killed him.

Someone knows what Elizabeth did twenty years ago and her secret is about to be exposed, but who is the mystery student submitting the chapters? In an effort to find out, Elizabeth returns to her Louisiana hometown where it soon becomes clear that no matter how many years have gone by, she can’t escape her past.

#ReleaseBlitz: Deadline by Willian G. Hyland, Jr. @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Fiction Thriller

Date Published: 11-01-2024

Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER/ARCHWAY

 

 

You may not believe in ghosts, but you cannot deny terror.

 

To uncover the truth about her mother’s mysterious disappearance years ago, the estranged daughter of a renowned illusionist must overcome her fear and spend three nights in her father’s secluded gothic mansion, where he has vowed to return from the grave. Helped by an adventurous reporter, she discovers a terrifying childhood secret that thrusts her into a world of deception and jeopardy, confronting a haunting supernatural presence and dark family secrets.

 

 DEADLINE is a supernatural, suspense thriller with a strong female protagonist, a deeply terrifying antagonist and a series of disturbing surprises that build to an ultimate shocker of an ending, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

#BookBlitz: Camo Coffee by Bob Sullivan, Jr. @RABTBookTours

 

Tales of a Wyoming Cowboy

 

Memoir / Nonfiction

Date Published: October 16, 2006

Publisher: The Lowell Press

 

Camp Coffee is not just about a person-Grant Beck-and his stories, it's about a way of life-the cowboy way of life. Most people will never feel the warmth of a high mountain campfire or experience the eye-burning smoke wafting from the branding coals. Few will have any firsthand experience of what the American cowboy was all about. Lots of books have been penned about lots of cowboys, both fictitous and real. But few cowboys have touched as many people in the encouraging way that Grant Beck has through his chosen profession. This is a must-have volume for all that are drawn to the essence of the western experience.

#ReleaseBlitz for Rattlin' Bones by Nikki Landis @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Rattlin' Bones

Series: Royal Bastards MC: Las Vegas, NV #4

Author: Nikki Landis

Genres: MC/Paranormal Romantic Suspense

Tropes: Halloween Romance/Later in Life/Age Gap

Morally Gray/Vigilante Justice/Organized Crime

Release Date: October 31, 2024

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Fear what hides in the shadows ...

Skel:

It’s supposed to be a simple job—a request from my new president to scout a potential business.

The strip club in Vegas is nothing special, as routine as any other in the City of Sin. But when I walk in the door, I find a curvy blonde fighting off an overeager, handsy customer.

I step in, sweeping her into my arms and issuing a warning to anyone trying to force themselves on a woman. Lacey isn’t grateful. She’s pissed.

When I leave, I can’t stop thinking about her. She intrigues me. It only takes a few seconds to realize she’s just the type of woman I would fall for. Lacey is heaven on the eyes and hell on the heart.

She’s wrong in every way: too young, troubled, on the opposite side of the law, and hiding a secret that could shatter the new club I joined.

I should stay away.

But I can’t. I have to follow her home, ensuring she’s safe. Something isn’t right when I park my bike. Busting down her door, I stop a vicious attack, saving Lacey’s life. Her enemy? It’s the same one my club has declared war against.

Now, Lacey is mine to protect, and I won’t let anyone harm her. She’s got secrets, but I do, too.

It’s almost Halloween. All the spooky, creepy things that play on the devil’s night? I command them.

She has no idea how vicious I’ll become to end every threat against her and the club. I’m unleashing the monster within, and he’s got a ravenous appetite.

Rattlin' Bones is part of the Royal Bastards MC world. It's a dark romance with a Halloween theme, violence, biker slang, steamy scenes, torture, revenge, and a slight paranormal twist. One woman's quest to stop injustice becomes a veteran's redemption. This wicked tale features a possessive, protective, outlaw V.P., and the determined woman who'll risk her life to ensure a criminal faces the judge for his crimes.

#ReleaseBlitz for Madam Emma's Love Emporium by Mary Oldham @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Madam Emma's Love Emporium

Series: Poison Garden #2

Author: Mary Oldham

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Trope: Small Town

Release Date: October 31, 2024

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If Jane/Kelan/Amber/Emma chooses your small town, it is because there is work to do.

This season, she has opened a curio shop called Madam Emma's Love Emporium in the small beachside town of Yachats, Oregon. It is filled with crystals, tarot cards, and dirty novels.

True to form, Emma meets the locals over tarot card readings and soon finds herself in the middle of several situations that require her unique and permanent solutions.

Only Emma is a little off this season. Could her new, happy marriage be distracting her?

Her usually dependable formulas are a little too potent, causing her some issues. She wonders if it might be time to stop doing what she has always been good at and finally settle down.