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The After House (A Haunting on Long Island Series Book 3) by Michael Phillip Cash

Poignant, witty, and propulsive… A standout gothic tale. Cash returns with this fine blend of gothic romance and humor in his latest novel. A year after getting divorce, the lovely Remy Galway buys a 300-year-old cottage in historic Cold Spring…
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Last Worst Hope by Lee Hunt

A Cracking page-turner with an unlikely group of misfits… Hunt’s highly gripping standalone, set in the world of his Dynamicist Trilogy, is as much a cerebral story as an action-driven tale. With the wizard Nehring Ardgour and his pawn from…
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Legends on the Rise Series by Leigh Rose

Riveting… Page-turning… Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The first book begins…
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When Starlings Fly as One by Nancy Blanton

A solid historical drama high on emotion, setting, and character… The nightmare of the 1641 Rebellion and Ireland’s longest siege comes to the page in this engrossing novel from Blanton, a provocative exploration of one young woman’s quest to find…
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Finding Fae by El Holly

Thrillingly full of intrigue, magic, and emotion… Holly plunges readers into a complex tangle of magic and intrigue in her latest novel, a coming-of-age YA fantasy. Dumped by her boyfriend of ten months, seventeen-year-old Eevee is trying her best to…
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SOMEWHERE YOU ARE IMMORTAL: An Elegy for Tom by Don Gutteridge

Hauntingly beautiful… Gutteridge delves into the pain and heartbreak of mourning in his strikingly intimate latest, a series of elegiac poems remembering, memorializing, and celebrating his grandson Tom’s life who died tragically at age 35. “Tom” highlights the empty space…
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The Perilous Journey of Gavin the Great by Don Gutteridge

A richly complex, stirring tale sure to keep readers glued to the pages… Gutteridge’s engrossing fantasy gracefully examines courage, adventure, resilience, and survival. After a devastating flood leaves the citizens of Earthwood trapped on a deserted island, they set out…
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The N. M. E.: A novel by Ryan A. Kovacs

A high-stakes, darkly intriguing work of verse fiction… Set in the 1960s and rife with violence, bloodshed, revenge, and intrigue, Kovacs’s free-verse crime thriller sees a pair of dangerous inmates trying to escape the maximum-security prison to carry out a…
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Ashes in Venice: A Vengeance Thriller by Gojan Nikolich

A tightly wound and brilliantly constructed psychological thriller… Nikolich’s latest novel is a suspenseful, professional-grade police procedural, featuring Las Vegas homicide detective Frank Savic who finds himself on the trail of a vengeful serial killer. Retirement is just around the…
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Vivie’s Secret by Terry Lee Caruthers

Imaginatively crafted and gripping… Immensely satisfying historical tale. Caruthers’s stunning novel, a fictionalized tale of a real-life Hungarian refugee turned cat rescuer, deftly delves into courage, compassion, understanding, and human resilience. As the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 begins, 12-year-old Vivie…
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Dry Heat: A Novel by Len Joy

An emotionally charged page-turner… Joy conjures up a gritty crime drama full of danger, betrayal, love, and loss in his latest novel. Joey Blade seems to have everything: a full-ride scholarship in cards, a beautiful new girlfriend, and doting parents.…
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Boulder Girl: Bad Moon Rising by Cynthia L. Clark

Riveting, emotionally charged, and suspenseful... Clark’s highly anticipated sequel to Boulder Girl, Remember Me When the Moon Hangs Low, continues Lana’s story as she struggles to come to terms with Roadking’s tragic death. With Roadking gone, Lana is doing her…
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The Artist Spoke by Ted Morrissey

Original, thought-provoking, and absorbing story about the choices that define our lives… Two strangers from disparate walks of life, each facing their own turmoil, come together to memorialize an avant-garde author in Morrissey’s latest literary tale. With his personal life…
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The Devil and Dayna Dalton: (Book 9) A Bulwark Anthology by Brit Lunden

A thoroughly imagined supernatural tale with taut pacing and compelling characters… Lunden’s exceptional ninth installment in her A Bulwark Anthology is hefty on both chills and thrills. For as long as Dana can remember, she has always loved Sheriff Clay…
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Pokergeist (A Haunting on Long Island Series Book 4) by Michael Phillip Cash

Un-put-downable… Cash’s fourth installment in A Haunting on Long Island Series is full of dark intrigue, wit, and emotion.  After losing his well-paid IT job, Telly Martin is trying his hands at being a professional poker player. When fate throws…
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Power Blind (A Dana Hargrove Legal Mystery) by V.S. Kemanis

An intricate, top-drawer legal thriller… Kemanis’s latest novel, the sixth in Dana Hargrove series, is a solid, fascinating legal thriller that explores the limits of love, guilt, and punishment. Former prosecutor Dana Hargrove, who has been appointed as an appellate…
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Bulwark by Brit Lunden

A compelling, fascinating horror… A tale that doesn’t let you go. Lunden’s immersive latest horror tale features memorable characters, taut pacing, and an intricate plot full of darkness and intrigue. Clay Finnes, the sheriff of Bulwark, Georgia, is trying to…
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Nahar by Kirk Templeton

Unsettling, dark, and deeply erotic… Set in an alternative world with an Indo-Persian flavor, Templeton’s debut is a deft blend of the elements of romance, high erotica, and speculative fiction. Nahar, the beautiful young queen of Samandal, is content ruling…
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Where is the Sun? by Tamar Johnson

A charming book that speaks directly to young hearts… Johnson returns with this striking picture book that celebrates positivity and gratitude. As young Lea and her mom set out to do their errands through the gray, rainy city streets, the…
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Nothing in Time Separating by K. Lumpkin

A compelling and inspiring story of love, courage, and resilience… Lumpkin adeptly blends high-tension of a deeply suspenseful thriller with hefty doses of romance and religion, taking readers on one woman’s journey to unraveling the mysteries of her past. When…