#BookReview: In the Shadow of Silence by @raedumont7 @shewritespress

Synopsis:

After a lonely childhood, this novel follows love and joy—until the descent untreated depression ends with unbearable loss, forcing a family to deal with the shocking and immediate aftermath of suicide.

Eva’s lonely childhood has given her an intuitive connection with kids and teenagers. She is a gifted child psychiatrist. Single, she dreams of having her own children, and she yearns for love. The future seems bright when she meets Lyman; They build a family. They share adventures. They meet life’s challenges as team. They navigate a bout of Lyman’s depression; treatment works.

They share rich, fulfilling years while their careers develop, and their children grow up.

When their sons enter adulthood and their daughter is a teenager, they plan an entire summer as a family. But Lyman abruptly stops both therapy and medication. He spirals into a dark and irritable isolation that none of them can penetrate.

After his brutal suicide, Eva is left to cope and to guide her children through the trauma, as they each rebuild their lives.

EDITOR'S PICK BookLife and Publishers' Weekly

#CoverReveal for Pine For Me by @swati.mh @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Pine For Me

A Haircuts and Heartthrobs Series Standalone

Author: Swati M.H.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Accidental Pregnancy/Second Chance

After Divorce/Celebrity/He Falls First/Neighbors

Cover Design: Cover Me Darling

Release Date: December 27, 2025

BLURB

He’s my Hollywood heartthrob ex-husband.

My hot new neighbor.

And, thanks to one reckless night, my soon-to-be baby daddy.

Patton Pierce has a knack for showing up when I least expect him—my street, my salon, my martial arts studio. Even my dreams.

Sure, I’ve pined for him over the past seven years, but if he thinks his low-slung gray sweatpants, backward cap, and infuriating grin will make me forget our past, then he’s in for a rude awakening.

But then my sister’s bachelorette party happens, and I have one too many drinks. One ridiculous dare later, and I find myself “kissing the boy I used to love”.

One kiss leads to one incredible night.

And one night leads to two very pink lines.

Patton says he wants me back, that nothing would make him happier than to have this baby with me. But I’ve heard those words before.

He chose Hollywood over me before, and he’ll choose it over me again.

Still, with him taking care of my every craving—both in and out of the bedroom—it’s getting harder not to fall for him.

The question is: will he be there to catch me this time?

#BookBlitz for Fangs of Fate by @rebecca_parcha @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: Fangs of Fate

Series: Untish #1

Author: Rebecca Parcha

Genres: Romantasy/Paranormal Romance

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers/Slow Burn

Morally Grey MC/Shadow Daddy

Release Date: October 29, 2024

BLURB

I am vengeance. Tate Aaralyn, a lone vampire vigilante who strikes fear into the hearts of monsters. My fangs puncture, and the flavor of iron-infused retribution drips down my throat when I exact justice.

Don’t be like them. Don’t succumb to bloodlust. Make the b*stards pay.

These rules have been my guide, leading me through life in the Glenn. And all had been flowing nicely until I met him…The male cloaked in secrets, wrapped in darkness, and holding the keys to my past and future: Aether.

Complex. Messy. Unexpected.

My whole world slipped into a tailspin of lies, betrayal, and secrets. As I'm forced into the guara with a male I loathe, yet somehow crave, I must not only untangle the truth of who I am, but also what I am.

I am the enforcer. Chance Dale, the vampire president’s son with a prestigious position as Dux in the guara. I command respect and provide results. I will not let the Glenn down.

Not as I hunt the traitor living among us. Not as dark magic’s inky ways begin to seep into our villages. Not as vile beasts fill them.

Nothing will stop me from this path, not even her. Even if one thing is clear: the very enemy I hunt, may be the one I love.

Fangs of Fate is an epic first-person dual-POV romantasy that will leave you breathless! Buckle up, grab a glass of bloodwine, and clear your calendar for this morally-grey, intrigue-infused, and action-packed romance that stars vampires, dragon shifters, corruption, and deception — and secrets that can break even the strongest...

#BookBlitz: The Custodian Trilogy by @jarrettmazzaauthor @RABTBookTours

Action Adventure Thriller

 

Eradicate

The Custodian Trilogy, Book One

Publisher: Rough Edges Press

Published: January 21, 2025

 

Baptized in fire. Sworn to honor. Bred for blood.

Kyle Quinn, a former elite operative turned black ops mercenary, is a “Custodian” trained to execute the world’s most dangerous missions. But when he’s assigned to dismantle a child abduction cult buried deep in Louisiana’s Cajun underworld, the mission takes a personal turn. The cult is tied to his dark past—and to the man he fears most: his own father.

What begins as a straight-forward mission spirals into a relentless battle of survival, forcing Quinn to face the sinister Tenet family, a web of deceit, and an assassin whose skills mirror his own. As Quinn uncovers long-buried secrets, his ultimate confrontation with his father tests the limits of his strength, morality, and resolve.

Prepare for a high-octane thrill ride filled with relentless action, shocking revelations, and a hero who redefines justice.

Ready to join Kyle Quinn on his mission? Grab your copy of Eradicate today and experience a story that will leave you breathless.

Fans of Vince Flynn and Lee Child will devour this pulse-pounding start to a gripping new series.

#ReleaseBlitz: Mr. Merry Ex-Mas by @carolinajax_author #IndiePenPR

I believe in three things: a well-structured Google Calendar, twinkle lights over colored ones, and never going back to an ex. But when the Starlight Bay Town Board pairs me with that ex, the one with charm for days and a smirk to match, to plan the biggest Christmas event of the year, my plan to avoid him begins to unravel.

Danny Love is chaos in a hoodie, yet he’s somehow the only person who ever made me feel seen, when he wasn’t teasing me or driving me absolutely insane. Now we're stuck together planning a Christmas Gala and dodging mistletoe balls, and it turns out, the spark between us never actually fizzled. It just waited for the moment we both might be brave enough to try, again.

Can holiday magic help his ‘winging it’ personality and my ‘google calendar is my bible’ attitude make it work a second time?

#AudioBookTour: The Pink Dress by @janebotkin @RABTBookTours

Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen

Memoir

Date Published: September 30, 2025

Publisher: She Writes Press/Tantor

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Run Time: 8 hours and 4 minutes

For fans of Little Miss Sunshine and Secrets of Miss America, this memoir from a national award-winning author reveals the reality of being the first Guyrex Girl in the 1970s. Beauty pageant stories have never been this raw, this real.

Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn't have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso's Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the "Kings of Beauty"—just as the 1970's counterculture movement began to take off.

A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the author's failed relationship with her mother, and her parents' failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs.

The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the era's conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that women went to college to get "MRS" degrees—to find a husband and become a stay-at-home wife and mother—often prevailed. How does one swim upstream against this notion among feminist voices that protest "If You Want Meat, Go to a Butcher!" at beauty pageants, two flamboyant showmen, and a developing awareness of self? Torn between women's traditional roles and what women could be, Guyrex Girls evolved, as did the author.

#BookBlitz: The Roommate Agreement by @a_akinosho @XpressoTours #Giveaway Prize: ebook copy

The Roommate Agreement
A. Akinosho
(The Agreement, #3)
Publication date: November 12th 2025
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

One apartment. One fake boyfriend. One agreement waiting to be broken.

Makayla:
I’m tired of my dad playing matchmaker.
As a music teacher juggling life with sickle cell disease, I don’t have time—or energy—for forced dinner dates with “eligible men.”
So, I come up with a plan: find a fake boyfriend, let him move in, and make it believable.
Daniel was never supposed to say yes.
He’s a grumpy, emotionally walled-off lawyer who hates chaos and clings to solitude.
But now he’s in my apartment—tall, brooding, infuriatingly neat—and fitting into my world way too easily.
I don’t believe in love. Not when life has taught me it rarely sticks around.
But something about him feels dangerously real.

Daniel:
Something about her captured my attention the moment I met her.
I knew I was in trouble.
Controlled and always alone—that’s who I’ve been.
But I said yes before I could stop myself.
Because moving into her tea-scented, music-filled home was the only way I could be close to her.
She’s sunshine and sharp edges. She hums while stirring honey into her cup and smiles through pain like it’s nothing.
This was supposed to be pretend.
But with every stolen glance and late-night conversation, the line between real and fake keeps slipping.
She doesn’t believe in love.
I never thought it was possible.
But living with her is rewriting everything I thought I knew—
And walking away might not be an option.