Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Never too Early: The Beginning Author: Chris Owen & Tory Temple Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Firefighters Chancellor Shanahan and Tucker McBride have been together for years. They've been through the rough patches and come out the other side, although shift work, misunderstandings, and stubborn personalities can make things interesting.... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Ordinary Heroes Author: Drew Zachary Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These four tales by Drew Zachary celebrate the everyday hero. Whether it’s a midnight romp in a corn maze under the moonlight at Halloween, or a vet returning to his small hometown years after leaving for the big... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleeping on the Job Author: Missouri Dalton Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 118 pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: At sixteen, Simon Murphy was an accomplished jewel thief, at eighteen he was released from a boy’s reform school and these days, he’s a detective with Chicago’s Night Shift. When a familiar killer strikes again, Simon... Continue Reading →
Title: The Demon’s Door Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 42000 Words Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When Thomas Carter discovers his grandfather’s hidden journals, detailing the old man’s fight against the supernatural, he knows he’s found his true calling at last. Yet when he sets out to stake a local vampire, he quickly... Continue Reading →
Title: The Demon’s Door Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 42000 Words Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When Thomas Carter discovers his grandfather’s hidden journals, detailing the old man’s fight against the supernatural, he knows he’s found his true calling at last. Yet when he sets out to stake a local vampire, he quickly... Continue Reading →
Title: Line in the Sand (Herc’s Mercs: Book Two) Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 104 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Alec “Red” Davis is Hercules Security’s director of operations, a man who is brave and honorable and yet also a stickler for following the rules. When Cade Thornton says that Alec is... Continue Reading →
Title: Line in the Sand (Herc’s Mercs: Book Two) Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 104 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Alec “Red” Davis is Hercules Security’s director of operations, a man who is brave and honorable and yet also a stickler for following the rules. When Cade Thornton says that Alec is... Continue Reading →
When my co-writer Racheline Maltese and I started writing the first draft of Starling over a year ago, we discussed whether we should write it in past or present tense. While Starling was a first novel for both of us, we’d both written a lot, in multiple genres and styles, before we decided to write... Continue Reading →
Title: The Stonechild Betrothal Author: Katalinya Palokova Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 55 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Estli is a professional bodyguard and fighter for hire who stumbles on a job that looks like easy money: escort a cursed magician named Maurin Stonechild from a remote mountain village to the bustling town of Plains... Continue Reading →
This is Ashavan Doyon posting from The Novel Approach -- the final stop on our blog tour for Steven's Heart. I have a special place in my heart for the Novel Approach, which gave a touching and honest review of Loving Aidan last year after it came out calling it "a very honest story of... Continue Reading →
This is Ashavan Doyon posting from The Novel Approach -- the final stop on our blog tour for Steven's Heart. I have a special place in my heart for the Novel Approach, which gave a touching and honest review of Loving Aidan last year after it came out calling it "a very honest story of... Continue Reading →
Title: Full Moon Dating: Evgeny and Feng Author: Julia Talbot Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 82 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tiger shifter Evgeny worries that he’ll never find a lover who can stand up to his sheer size and strength. He’s scared off more than one man, which is why he turns to Harve... Continue Reading →
Title: Full Moon Dating: Evgeny and Feng Author: Julia Talbot Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 82 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tiger shifter Evgeny worries that he’ll never find a lover who can stand up to his sheer size and strength. He’s scared off more than one man, which is why he turns to Harve... Continue Reading →
Title: The Fantasy Collection Author: Kiernan Kelly Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 73 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: This collection features three tales of fantastical lives and impossible love. Suspend your belief, and dive into a trio of stories filled with incredible circumstances, and magical influences. In Mr. Fix-It, a frustrated consumer finds himself the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Fantasy Collection Author: Kiernan Kelly Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 73 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: This collection features three tales of fantastical lives and impossible love. Suspend your belief, and dive into a trio of stories filled with incredible circumstances, and magical influences. In Mr. Fix-It, a frustrated consumer finds himself the... Continue Reading →
When I think of cowboys, it's hard not to romanticize and fantasize about the lonesome man on the open trail rather than the ranch hand or the rodeo cowboy we often see in fiction. Does BA like a certain type of cowboy, and what does she find sexy about them? Cowboys are my weakness. I... Continue Reading →
When I think of cowboys, it's hard not to romanticize and fantasize about the lonesome man on the open trail rather than the ranch hand or the rodeo cowboy we often see in fiction. Does BA like a certain type of cowboy, and what does she find sexy about them? Cowboys are my weakness. I... Continue Reading →
Title: Men in Uniform Author: Anthology Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: There's just something about a man in uniform, no matter what kind of uniform it happens to be. In "Best Laid Plans" by M. Durango, Craig gets a blast from the past when his new delivery man turns... Continue Reading →
Title: Men in Uniform Author: Anthology Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: There's just something about a man in uniform, no matter what kind of uniform it happens to be. In "Best Laid Plans" by M. Durango, Craig gets a blast from the past when his new delivery man turns... Continue Reading →
I confess. I have a thing for men in uniform. Always have. I ogle smokin’ hot firemen, gape at military hunks in camouflage, and drool over sexy police officers whenever they cross my path. It must be an innate response to all that luscious man-flesh wrapped in a freshly pressed package. But don’t think for... Continue Reading →
“There is safety in the very heart of danger.” ― Vincent van Gogh Title: The Bigger they Come (Herc's Mercs #1) Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 158 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Cade “Hercules” Thornton is an ex-Marine and soldier of fortune; now he’s the owner of Hercules Security, which provides the... Continue Reading →
“There is safety in the very heart of danger.” ― Vincent van Gogh Title: The Bigger they Come (Herc's Mercs #1) Author: Ari McKay Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 158 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Cade “Hercules” Thornton is an ex-Marine and soldier of fortune; now he’s the owner of Hercules Security, which provides the... Continue Reading →
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