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Bad Love By Piper Lawson

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LOGAN

I bet my family’s legacy on making 10,000 women happy.

Kendall Sullivan, marketing queen, is my only hope of saving the thing I care most about.

She doesn’t have time for my shenanigans or my playboy reputation.
Too bad I can’t get her out of my head.

So what happens when I only want to please her?

KENDALL

Pastor’s kid. Single mom. Divorced before I could drink.

I’ve never regretted any of it.

Until the infamous Logan Hunter makes me an offer: I help him with his problem and he helps me with mine.

He’s the most gorgeous, infuriating man I’ve ever met. Every bit of my control crumbles when I’m around him.

It’s reckless. A bad idea. A devil’s bargain…

I’m totally going to hell for this.

Bad Love is a provocative new contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author Piper Lawson! It is a full-length standalone in the interconnected Modern Romance series (#2).

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Piper Lawson is a USA Today bestselling author of smart, steamy romance! She writes about women who follow their dreams (even the scary ones), best friends who know your dirty secrets (and love you anyway), and complex heroes you’ll fall hard for (especially after talking with them). Brains or brawn? She’ll never make you choose. Piper lives in Canada with her tall, dark and brilliant husband. She believes peanut butter is a protein, rose gold is a neutral, and love is ALWAYS the answer.

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Snow Laughing Matter By Wendy Meadows

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Will Sarah fall victim to a deadly killer set on destroying her life? Or will she force herself to use her cop instincts to outsmart the riddles of a clown who turns laughter into screams?

While Conrad is away helping a friend in New York, Sarah and Amanda go see a circus that is visiting the small town of Snow Falls. Even though Sarah is sad because her attempts to become pregnant have yet to bear fruit, she decides to enjoy the circus show. After the show, Sarah and Amanda find a pie in Sarah’s jeep, and another one waiting at Sarah’s cabin door. Suddenly the fun night turns mysterious and dangerous. A killer has left a deadly message for Sarah to find.

Events turn worse when a circus worker is murdered. The killer’s style of murder tells Sarah exactly who he is. Sarah is torn, caught between the desire to walk away from being a cop and the need to catch a killer. The hunger to become a mother blocks her skill to think clearly. But after having a talk with Pete, Sarah gets back on track and begins to track down the killer. Only the killer has a new face and a completely new identity—along with a secret trick up his sleeve.

This cozy mystery is a clean read: no graphic violence, sex, or strong language.

Read all the Alaska cozy mysteries:

1. The Snowman Killer
2. Deep in the Snow
3. Snow Happens
4. Snow is Not the Time
5. Spring into Murder
6. Chasing Shadows
7. Snowy Misery
8. Hot Springs Murder
9. Danger in the Snow
10. Snow Ordinary Family
11. Snow Mercy
12. Snow Laughing Matter

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Wendy Meadows is a USA Today best-selling author whose meticulously crafted stories showcase witty women sleuths and engaging plots. Her primary influences include but are not limited to mystery genre greats Joanne Fluke, Ellery Adams, and James Patterson. To date, she has published dozens of books, which include her popular Sweetfern Harbor Series, Maple Hill Series, and Alaska Cozy Series, to name a few.

In a previous life, Wendy worked as a Graphic Designer, earning her Graphic Design Certification at the prestigious New York based Sessions School of Design. With this valuable artistic background, she designs her own book covers. In fact, she began writing fiction soon after designing numerous book covers for other fiction authors.

When she isn’t writing about female detectives and their tactful crime solving, you can find Wendy either tending to her hobby farm, playing video games, relaxing on her back porch, or coloring in her growing collection of adult coloring books. She also loves spending quality time with her husband, two sons, two cats, and one adorable Labradoodle. Together, they call “The Granite State” home sweet home.

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The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith

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A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France.

For centuries, the vineyards at Château Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorcière Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after breaking the spell that confined her to the shallows of a marshland and weakened her magic, Elena is struggling to return to her former life. And the vineyard she was destined to inherit is now in the possession of a handsome stranger.

Vigneron Jean-Paul Martel naively favors science over superstition, and he certainly doesn’t endorse the locals’ belief in witches. But Elena knows a hex when she sees one, and the vineyard is covered in them. To stay on and help the vines recover, she’ll have to hide her true identity, along with her plans for revenge against whoever stole seven winters of her life. And she won’t rest until she can defy the evil powers that are still a threat to herself, Jean-Paul, and the ancient vine-witch legacy in the rolling hills of the Chanceaux Valley.

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Luanne G. Smith is the author of THE VINE WITCH, a historical fantasy novel about witches, wine, and revenge set in early 20th century France, and the forthcoming second book in The Vine Witch series, THE GLAMOURIST. She’s lucky enough to live in Colorado at the base of the beautiful Rocky Mountains, where she enjoys reading, gardening, hiking, a glass of wine at the end of the day, and finding the magic in everyday life.

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Redemption Through Forgiveness: How God Used My Mental Illness To Save Me

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Diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder and other mental illnesses, Lisa created personalities as a child to help her survive trauma and abuse. As an adult, she finally meets her alters and finds that they are Christian alters whom God will use to help her understand His great love and mercy toward her. It is when God gives Lisa one of the most difficult challenges of her life – forgiving the person she hates most in the world, her mother – that she learns how to accept God’s forgiveness and salvation.

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Born and raised in Illinois, Lisa Slaton has been a Christian for 30 years. After graduating from Columbia College at the age of 42, she obtained BA’s in Psychology and Human Services. Lisa has worked in the health care field since she was a teenager. She is single and lives with her fur babies – six cats and two dogs. When she is not writing, Lisa likes to listen to music from the 1970’s and watch Korean soap operas.

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Books For Review – Week of August 19th

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Scott Free
By Nkosi Ife Bandele
Publisher: Crimson Cloak Publishing
Published: June 2019
ISBN: 978-1681605340 (pb)
ISBN: 978-1681605333 (ebook)
Pages: 136
Genre: Literary Fiction

Scott Free chronicles the life of a near thirty New York City filmmaker, ironically stuck working the concession stand at an upscale movie theater,, trying to negotiate his dead end relationships, too. He hops a “Greyhound $99 Special” en route to Hollywood, but in failing to reach the stars he lands on his knees, down and out in the San Francisco cleaning toilets and realizing that his life West resembles his life East as there’s really no escaping oneself.

Because of You
Drake Isle, Book 1
By Allie Boniface
Publisher: DFM Publishing
Release Date: October 15, 2019
ASIN: B07VN8LMK5
Pages: 250
Genre: Romance

Ten years ago, Piper Townsend fell to her death from the top of a fraternity house, and no one on Drake Isle has ever been the same. Blake Carter’s fraternity was scandalized. Misterion College closed down altogether. And Blake’s girlfriend, Emerson Doyle, fled the island after her best friend died and never looked behind her.

Now they’re back.

Blake’s the CEO of a multi-million dollar tech firm looking to relocate to the island. Emerson owns a yoga studio in the building he wants to buy. They haven’t spoken in ten years. They’re on opposite sides of the bargaining table.

But old flames die hard.

And the more Blake and Emerson fight both the past and each other, the more they realize that coming to terms with tragedy is their only chance of finding love again…

Tides of Time
(The Legacy Series #1)
by Luna Joya
City Owl Press
Release Date: August 20, 2019

A witchy good girl hiding secrets from her family…

Cami yearns for a regular, ho hum, average life. Or at least as normal as she can get in a family of witches. But she can’t tell her sisters about her violent ex. Or that she broke the first rule of magic to “harm none.” Yet, when her youngest sister asks for help unraveling the death of a 1930’s star abused by loved ones, Cami can’t refuse.

A reformed bad boy who doesn’t know his family’s hidden secrets…

Sam lives for his restaurant and the intrigue of digging into Hollywood history. He avoids the entanglements of relationships since even his own parents didn’t want him. But when the enchanting Cami needs his help to crack an unsolved mystery, he can’t resist. The closer they come to finding the killer, the more they crave each other. But someone is determined to stop them.

Can they solve the mystery before history repeats itself?

Wear Your Purpose Like It’s a Fashion Statement By Shavonda Robinson

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Wear Your Purpose Like It’s a Fashion Statement
By Shavonda Robinson
ISBN: 978-1723718656
ASIN: B07HCSW1DP
Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Help

This motivational book is about taking your vision and turning it into a reality while you are in your thirties. This book will educate those who are in their thirties to plan ahead for the future, and how to take care of themselves along the way. Learning how to build your legacy, empire, and set yourself up to become successful for life.

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Shavonda Robinson is an author of
Thy Paintbrush Of Abstracting Images.
Hidden Voices Of Abuse For Women All Around The World.
Your Worst Nightmare.
I am A Free Woman Poems For A Little Girl.
Moving Phrases Into Inspiration.
Wear Your Purpose Like It’s A Fashion Statement.
Poems Cries Out Beautiful Songs.
Saving Our Youth.
Love Scenes.
Love Memories In The Rain.
All Women Are Queens So Here Is Your Crown.
Build A Dream Build A Legacy By Using Your Talents.
Mesmerizing Falls.
World Of Issues.
A Woman’s Strength Through Her Pen.
Jack The Dancing Caterpillar.
Playful Rhymes.
Drowning Souls On The Mend.
Spiritual Reflections/ I am Changed Woman.
Play Hour On Exploring.
Confessional Booth Volume One.
Dancing Souls Across The Horizon.
The Gift Of Love On Christmas Day.
She Is On The Rise.
Profound Voices Of Women Throughout The Movement.
Beautifully Invisible
Sailing Away On My Love Thoughts.
We are Fashionably Loud Sisters.
Pen Thoughts.
Spoken Truth Of A Misunderstood Girl.
Raindrops On Memories.
God Spiritual Hands
Freed My Soul.
Touch The Sky
I am Fearless Woman.
She Has A Purpose.
She is an award winning, published songwriter
and poet.
Songs written
Love Hour,
Love Corruption,
Written Alibi’s,
Forgive Me Or Forgive Me Not,
Liars and Cheaters,
Kiss Her Now,
She has published in many anthologies and magazines.
She has a degree in Creative Writing.
She is the founder of “Creative Something For The Future” an poetry magazine for upcoming poets and writers.
She is the owner of Color Me Beautiful Collection
From her online store
Inspiring Your Desires.
She has two beautiful children.
She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Books For Review – Week of August 12th

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MARI, Why I Needed to Return from the Future
By Winfried Sedhoff
Publisher: Senraan Publishing
Published: June 2019
ISBN: 978-0994609120
ASIN: B07T2WXH3B
Pages: 220
Genre: Time Travel Sci-fi Romance

What if you discovered your greatest potential for self-realization and happiness was tied to a woman living over a hundred years before you were born?

Earth, 2184 AD. Ben Ecclestone is an advanced arbitrator, trained to keep the peace and to assist others in fulfilling their most heartfelt desires. Offered the opportunity to be Earth’s new ambassador in an enlightened and distant world, Ben embarks on his first interworld mission.

Disaster strikes and his ship crashes through time and space to Brisbane, 2020 AD. Stranded in a city of skyscrapers, digitally-connected loneliness, and rampant dissatisfaction, Ben doesn’t expect to meet a woman like Mari. She is young, vibrant and passionate—with a mysterious past. He is a confirmed celibate. Together they discover a depth of connection and intrigue beyond his wildest imaginings.

Abducted back to his own era by the History Rescue Unit, Ben grasps one desperate chance to persuade another arbitrator to permit the fulfilment of his dreams. But his return to the past could unravel the time thread and threaten the lives and wellbeing of billions.

What is the secret of Mari’s true identity and origin? And will Ben bow to the greater good or reclaim a love beyond compare?

Two Journeys
By Clemens P. Suter
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 978-1468122787 (pb)
ISBN: 978-1452323633 (ebook)
ASIN: B00531REC8
Pages: 550
Genre: Adventure, Thriller

A man left alone on earth.

Alan is visiting Japan on business. After the outbreak of a pandemic, he finds himself to be the single survivor. The viral disease has wiped away his past life: he must fear injury, loneliness and hunger. Yet, Alan decides to travel back to his family in Berlin, straight across Asia. An exciting, thought-provoking book, impossible to put down.

Praise for Two Journeys:
“Move over, Cormac McCarthy, another survivor is traveling the Armageddon road. Clemens P. Suter’s apocalyptic thriller grabs you in the first couple of pages and never lets go. The reader feels real empathy for the main character’s plight as he begins a seemingly impossible 9,000-mile trip to learn his family’s fate. The cause of the calamity is mysterious but clues are uncovered along the way causing tension to build until we reach the shattering climax. Two Journeys is not to be missed.” – G. Dedrick Robinson, author of Blood Scourge

Murder in the Corn Maze
by G. A. McKevett
Kensington Books
Release Date: September 24, 2019

The roots of the Moonlight Magnolia Detective Agency reach back to the 1980s in the little town of McGill, Georgia—where Stella Reid and her seven grandkids enjoy some spooky Halloween fun and stumble into murder . . .

It doesn’t take cash, just some good old-fashioned creativity, to turn a pillowcase into a ghost costume or a trashcan into a suit of armor. So even if she has to stick to a budget, Stella Reid always makes holidays like Halloween memorable for twelve-year-old Savannah and the rest of her grandchildren.

After joining the other townspeople for trick-or-treating and the annual parade down Main Street, Granny Reid and the kids head to Judge Patterson’s antebellum mansion, where a corn maze awaits. Most of the youngsters are too terrified to make it all the way to the middle. It’s lucky for them, because when Savannah and Granny get there, it proves to be even scarier than they expected—half buried in the mud at the center of the maze lies a human skull.

The grisly discovery uncovers a mystery that stretches back decades—and seems to be related to the long-unsolved murder of Granny Reid’s own part-Cherokee mother. After all this time, the culprit may be long gone . . . or still hiding among them. It’ll be up to Granny to dig into this Southern town’s history and a mess of old family secrets . . .