New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips returns to her beloved Chicago Stars series with book eleven, AND THE CROWD WENT WILD.  I learned a fun fact in the Author Note here: Phillips is widely credited with popularizing and essentially creating ...
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What if all that glitters really isn’t gold?  Virginia is a Buffalo Jills cheerleader, and seemingly has everything she ever wanted - the dancing dream, the fun nights out, the priceless bonds of sisterhood, and her best friend, Jeanine, to share it all with.  But...
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The Harper and Wells families have been enemies for generations. Though when Luke Wells shows up at THE SHOP ON HIDDEN LANE and meets Sophy Harper, the feud seems to fly out the window.  Or it might end up becoming much worse.

Sophy Harper is a psychic who ...
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Deputy Ben Packard takes his job very seriously, and he wants to hold the bad characters accountable, but this time he’s up against a formidable villain who will exterminate anyone in their path in A LONG TIME GONE by Joshua Moehling. This third book in the Ben Pa...
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Sixty seconds in the In Death series, STOLEN IN DEATH by J.D. Robb brings us another fairly fun installation in this looooong-running futuristic murder mystery/police procedural series.  There are so many components of this series that make it enjoyable.  Lieutena...
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Huge Jill Shalvis fan, and I’m enjoying her newest trilogy focused on three brothers working on renovation construction and finding love.  Set in the mythical small town of Star Falls, California, the town has a legend that a soulmate will enter the life of anyone...
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Twice a year, J.D. Robb (really Nora Roberts writing under a pen name) releases a new book in her In Death series. STOLEN IN DEATH is the 62nd book featuring Homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her gazillionaire husband, Roarke. Each book begins with a murder and f...
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The Outer Banks is home to a famous tennis training facility.

It’s the home of Penny Harrison, a rising tennis star. Fresh off winning a tournament, she’ll be training hard for the next few weeks before the French Open. Her coach brings in Alex, a male tenn...
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Drawing on Chinese mythology, this tension- filled fable pits brother against brother, throne against famine, and adds a dragon. THE POET EMPRESS carries an inherent contradiction, because women are kept illiterate by the haughty Azalea Dynasty.

Knowing tha...
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Isabelle Engel’s debut novel, MOST ELIGIBLE, is a rom-com with the backdrop of a reality television show called Love Shack, where 20 young women vie for the heart of tennis champion Roland Marchetti. From the beginning, the reader knows that music journalist Georg...
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The fourth Monster Hunter Mystery starts with the shocking, brutal killing of a local woman on Bray Road in Wisconsin. The injuries look like they were caused by a monster - could it be the legendary cryptid, the Beast of Bray Road? Or is it a more dangerous kille...
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The day of her father's funeral, a famous author, Emerson, takes his typewriter. She's been forbidden to touch it. In a moment of grief, she types a wish. She's stunned to discover her wish came true, not in the way she expected, and with consequences she never co...
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CROSS YOUR HEART AND HOPE HE DIES by Jenny Elder Moke is a wild cozy mystery and rom-com mix with a headstrong lead character intent on finding a missing manuscript after the author dies and leaves her book deal of the century close to doom.  

Juli...
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The first in a two-book series, SILVER &
BLOOD is a diverting forced proximity enemies-to-lovers
romantasy by an author that I adore, Jessie Mihalek.
My favorite reads by Mihalek have been sci-fi romance.
Her Consortium
Rebellion series is especiall...
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This is a boarding school story with a difference; two differences. This is an alternative history setting, and there are dragons. TO RIDE A RISING STORM is the second in a series featuring Anequs, a girl native to the land we call eastern Canada and the northeast...
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I always love a novel of women running a
small business. Delaney Huger of Virginia is living her
dream job in marketing for a good-sized winery. Life brings
her back to visit Gull Island for a family wedding. Here she
finds SIMPLICITY BY THE SEA, which...
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Anne had dreams of writing a book. She
wasn’t always going to be a teacher. But she likes
teaching, and she’s good at it. When a parent
complains about a book she lent their son, the school wants
her to apologize. Anne’s not sorry for sharing the
bo...
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Billie Walker returns for another case,
beginning in Sydney, 1948.  This former war
correspondent found that jobs were given to men in Australia
at the war’s end. She set about reopening her late
father’s private inquiry office. This time, she learnsRead More

NINE GOBLINS by T. Kingfisher was originally self- published as an ebook in October 2013 by Smashwords. It was also previously released by Audible in audio version with a release date of  September 2024.  A delightful little novella, it is now being re-released by...
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IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU by Andrea Mara is a pulse- pounding 10-day thrill ride set in motion by a message mistakenly sent to a 300-member WhatsApp group. The message contains secrets that produce a chain reaction of events that include four deaths, an injured teen...
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This urban fantasy romance novella brings music artist Natalie Gardenwood to revisit her high school for a reunion around Christmas. She was always shy but loved music, and she’s been making a living in music shops and travelling with orchestras. A CHRISTMAS CADEN...
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Scout Harlowe inherited the farm she helped
run with her grandpa, and his passing leaves her somewhat
vulnerable. Luckily, her llamas guard the goat flock well,
and they manage to get the better of Hudson Concord, who
wakes up in an awkward position. H...
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Having recently enjoyed a light mystery set
in the historical Cold War era of young Queen Elizabeth,
aboard the Royal Train, I was delighted to climb back aboard
the transport. The modern era is no less dangerous and
convoluted in THE HAWK IS DEAD.
...
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A high school reunion takes a deadly turn in
the second book in the Pearly Girls Mystery series by Heather
Weidner. Cassidy Jamison, owner of Celebrations at Ivy
Springs, is hosting a high school class reunion at her venue
and must contend with the dem...
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