#BookTour: Shattered Compass by @lenoregreinertravelwriter @RABTBookTours

 

A Memoir of Loss, Escape, and Renewal

 

Memoir

Date Published: June 11, 2025

Publisher: Acorn Publishing

 

How does a young woman cope when she cannot speak the truth?

When nineteen-year-old Lenore experiences sexual assault while studying abroad in Italy, her entire world shifts. Survival becomes the focus of her daily life, physical illness grabs control of her body, and no one can free her from her pain. A ghost of herself, she takes the path of denial, believing it’s the only way to protect her loved ones and herself from her harsh reality.

On her journey toward peace, she assumes the expected roles of mother and wife, but a traumatic diagnosis puts her at a crossroads. She must start living the life she wants or roam her days as a victim in the chaos of fear. Lenore’s escape through travel allows her to reconcile the imprisonment she’s suffered over the years.

However, when another family tragedy strikes, Lenore understands she must finally come to terms with the silence she’s kept. But what if one incident that happened decades ago is too destructive, too deep to be excavated? Will she be able to find herself in the rubble? Or will she be lost forever?

#BookReview: Wildbloodby by @a.j.vrana

The Witcher meets Devil May Cry with a splash of John Wick in this dark, gritty, and sexy urban fantasy-noir.

Kai Donovan has always had sharp teeth.

Earning his keep as an underground fighter in South Boston, he revels in well-earned notoriety. Wild. Irreverent. Vicious. His secret: he's the monster from a fable.

But when Kai loses a match against a mysterious opponent whose ferocity rivals his own, he finds himself beholden to the underworld. What he owes isn't money, but the recovery of an elusive prize coveted by the city's most dangerous criminals.

His partner Miya—burdened with the ability to traverse dreams—spends her days investigating supernatural phenomena. When she receives a shadowy proposal to find a missing teenager, she's confronted with the possibility that another like her exists.

As Kai and Miya chase ghosts, the threads of their pursuits weave into a menacing tapestry. Kai's dark past returns to haunt him, threatening the bonds he believed to be ironclad. Unhealed wounds fester as he's faced with a ruinous choice: unravel his blood-soaked history or lose himself and the life he's scavenged together.

Bare your teeth. The nightmares are at your door.

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Wildblood is a companion novel to The Chaos Cycle Duology. It can be enjoyed as a standalone, though familiarity with the duology may enrich reader experience.

#CoverReveal for Make the Play by @kaylee_ryan_author @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Make the Play

Series: Nashville Rampage #1

Author: Kaylee Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance

Tropes: Football Romance/Brother's Best Friend

Teammate's Sister/Forbidden/Secret Relationship

Model Cover Design: Lori Jackson Design

Photographer: Michelle Lancaster

Special Edition Cover Design: Mary, 

Books and Moods

Release Date: June 24, 2025

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Corie

Knox Beckett is heartbreak in a helmet. He’s also my brother’s best friend, and so far out of my league, he's untouchable.

But a few stolen glances turn into a welcome home that blindsides us both.

The rules are clear. We just chose not to follow them.

Now we’re sneaking around like we’re running a trick play, hooking up behind closed doors, and pretending our actions don’t have the power to blow up our lives.

Knox is under my skin and tackling his way into my heart. Ready or not, it's time we make the play.

Knox

She’s the last girl I’m allowed to want—my best friend’s little sister. She’s all grown up and looking at me in invitation.

The second Corie crashes into me, with her tanned, toned skin, in a barely there bikini, I know I’m in trouble.

I shouldn’t look. And I sure as hell shouldn’t touch. My hands are already on her waist, one second longer, and I’ll do something we both might regret.

What I do is even worse. I help her land a job working for the team. My team.

Now I can’t get her out of my mind, or my way. And keeping my hands to myself is a penalty waiting to happen. Because Corie isn’t just off-limits—she’s one line I swore I’d never cross, yet I’m sprinting toward it.

I’d risk the season—my entire career—for her just to make the play.

#ReleaseBlitz for Brick's Redemption by @nikkilandisauthor #GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Brick's Redemption

Series: Royal Bastards MC: Las Vegas, NV #5

Graven Bastards MC: Las Vegas, NV #5

Author: Nikki Landis

Genres: MC Romance

Tropes: Taboo/Age Gap/Secret Pregnancy/One Bed

Revenge/Forced Proximity/Rival Club

Release Date: May 29, 2025

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From USA Today Bestselling Author Nikki Landis comes a steamy, age gap, morally grey, revenge-driven MC romance with a slight paranormal twist.

Brick:

Fifteen years ago, I lost my best friend, my sponsor, and the man I was proud to call a brother.

He was gunned down in the middle of the street on a Sunday afternoon.

A hit by a rival club as he rode toward his daughter on her thirteenth birthday.

Three miles from home, he missed her party and a pivotal moment in her life.

She never got to say goodbye.

Now, all these years later, we meet up again.

A snowstorm and a canceled flight in Denver put her in my path as I arrived at the airport to help my club brother.

I offer her a ride, and since it's her only option of arriving home safely, she accepts.

But we're targeted and followed, and nearly killed.

I manage to get her home safely for the holidays, only to kidnap and bring her to a safe house.

Ginny is mine.

I've claimed her and fallen hard for the sexy, curvy redhead.

I won't risk her safety. She's got to stay in hiding until I can deal with the threat.

But she's got secrets, and so do I.

Ginny doesn't know that I was the one who found her father, Hesh, in his last moments.

I made a promise to protect her, to get vengeance for the men who stole Ginny's father from her.

And if I have to ride into hell to do it, I will.

This is not a standalone. It's highly recommended to read My Christmas Biker first.

Welcome to Las Vegas, where sin, corruption, and the law tangle together. Control belongs to the ones who wear a patch and ride an iron steed. Get ready to rev your engines with the wicked, possessive, protective, alpha men of the Graven Bastards MC Las Vegas Chapter.

#BookReview: Out of the Dawn (Into the Mist #2) by @pccastauthor

Mercury Rhodes leads a group of survivors toward salvation—that is, until someone, or something, starts hunting them again.

Mercury Rhodes barely remembers life before the bombs fell, before the green mist. While it proved deadly to all the men who breathed it in, it gave new life to some women who did the same. The green mist provided each member of her newfound family an ability: Stella’s sense of the future, Imani’s earthly connection, Karen’s bond with Spirit, and Gemma’s healing ability. Although Mercury now has incredible physical strength—she doesn’t know if she will be strong enough for what comes next. Especially after the death of Ford, their companion through the aftermath of the mist.

The group finds respite in creating a small community in the Painted Hills. Together, they hope to find a place where they can start over. But Mercury knows it won’t be that simple, not when she knows someone, or something, is hunting them. Something that wants to rule the ruins of the world and something who sees Mercury as a threat to get rid of.

Mercury will have to muster all her strength if she is to fight for a new dawn. The fate of her friends—and the world—depend on it.

#BookReview: The Road of Bones (The Ashen, #1) by @demiwinterswrites

A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance. And the secret which threatens them all.

Silla Nordvig is running for her life.

The Queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where death awaits her. When her father is killed, his last words set Silla on a perilous travel the treacherous Road of Bones–a thousand-mile stretch haunted by warbands, creatures of darkness, and a mysterious murderer–and go to Kopa, where a shield-house awaits her.

After barely surviving the first stretch of road, a desperate Silla sneaks into a supply wagon belonging to the notorious Bloodaxe Crew. To make it to Kopa, she must win over Axe Eyes, the brooding leader of the Crew, while avoiding the Wolf, his distractingly handsome right-hand man. But the queen’s ruthless assassin has other plans and hunts Silla obsessively.

Will Silla make it safely to Kopa? Or will she fall prey to the perils of the Road of Bones?

Featuring an immersive world blending fairy tale with Vikings, The Road of Bones leads you on an adrenaline-fueled chase with fun banter and a slow-building enemies to lovers romance. The first book in the Ashen Series, you are one click away from reading it!

#BookBlitz: Deviously Delicious by @t.j.deschamps.author @bethawhiteman @RABTBookTours

 

Jills of All Trades, Book One

Mystery, Contemporary Fantasy

Date Published: May 31, 2025

 

 

On the Northern California coast, beyond the mists of the ancient redwoods, there’s a quiet town like any other. Sueños del Mar has bakeries, repair shops, and friendly neighbors looking out for one another.

Or so it would seem.

This is a deviously delicious lie.

Every resident of Sueños del Mar has a skeleton in the closet. Even polar opposite best friends, roommates, and business partners Allison and Dorseigh.

Dorseigh McHale is a simple girl next door, seeking to earn a living wage and let go of her need to please everyone.

Allison Liddle seeks to leave her past behind and travel the world in style.

Their simple plans are thwarted when an unconscious boy ends up in their driveway.

The key to unlocking the secrets of the people and the town itself surfaces once kids start to go missing. Accused of the kidnapping, The Jills of all Trades, Allison and Dorseigh must add another skill to their resume: Amateur detectives.

With the help of friends, and some red herrings along the way, the Jills discover the missing children aren’t the only thing wrong with the town of Sueños del Mar.