Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Love and Punishment Author: Susan Mac Nicol Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Length: 245 Pages Blurb: On the search for a serial killer, Detective Anthony Parglietto and Flynn Parker learn that every man must make a choice: to kill, to live, to love. FROM DARKNESS AND LIGHT Someone is leaving a trail of... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes SJD Peterson on the Splintered blog tour. THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED Blurb: A string of murders targeting effeminate gay men has the GLBTQ community of Chicago on alert, but budget cuts have left many precincts understaffed and overworked. Not to mention, homophobia is alive and well within the law enforcement community... Continue Reading →
Title: Yakuza Courage Author: H.J. Brues Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sequel to Yakuza Pride Ex-Navy SEAL Brendan O’Farrihy enrolls in kendo classes to investigate a Honolulu dojo acting as a front for a yakuza syndicate. Or at least that’s what Brendan’s client, Senator Harris, believes. Through his kendo instructor, the... Continue Reading →
Title: Rasputin’s Kiss and Evil’s Embrace Author: L.M. Somerton Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 222 Pages/178 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Overall Blurb: Rasputin’s Kiss -- What if the last thing you felt was the kiss of a knife? Rasputin's kiss is lethal. He's a ghost-killing and disappearing into the night. With few leads and four... Continue Reading →
Title: Rasputin’s Kiss and Evil’s Embrace Author: L.M. Somerton Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 222 Pages/178 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Overall Blurb: Rasputin’s Kiss -- What if the last thing you felt was the kiss of a knife? Rasputin's kiss is lethal. He's a ghost-killing and disappearing into the night. With few leads and four... Continue Reading →
“The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong. Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find yourself; you just have tolet yourself in.” – D. Antoinette Foy Title: Filthy Acquisitions Author: Edmond Manning Publisher: Wilde... Continue Reading →
“The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong. Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find yourself; you just have tolet yourself in.” – D. Antoinette Foy Title: Filthy Acquisitions Author: Edmond Manning Publisher: Wilde... Continue Reading →
Title: Dirty Secret Author: Rhys Ford Narrator:: Greg Tremblay Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 4 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Loving Kim Jae-Min isn't always easy: Jae is gun-shy about being openly homosexual. Ex-cop turned private investigator Cole McGinnis doesn't know any other way to be. Still, he understands where Jae is coming... Continue Reading →
Title: Dirty Secret Author: Rhys Ford Narrator:: Greg Tremblay Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 4 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Loving Kim Jae-Min isn't always easy: Jae is gun-shy about being openly homosexual. Ex-cop turned private investigator Cole McGinnis doesn't know any other way to be. Still, he understands where Jae is coming... Continue Reading →
Title: Home the Hard Way Author: Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 324 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Dare Buckley has come home—or at least, he’s come back to Palladian, the small town he left as a teenager. After a major lapse in judgment forced him to resign from the Seattle PD, Palladian is... Continue Reading →
Title: Home the Hard Way Author: Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 324 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Dare Buckley has come home—or at least, he’s come back to Palladian, the small town he left as a teenager. After a major lapse in judgment forced him to resign from the Seattle PD, Palladian is... Continue Reading →
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” – Paul Coelho Title: Unexpected Trust (Unexpected #2) Author: Silvia Violet Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 175 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Special Agent Hugh Cranford, better known as Sport, is conducting an... Continue Reading →
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” – Paul Coelho Title: Unexpected Trust (Unexpected #2) Author: Silvia Violet Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 175 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Special Agent Hugh Cranford, better known as Sport, is conducting an... Continue Reading →
Professional badass Luki Vasquez and weaver Sonny James meet for the first time in Loving Luki Vasquez, and they might make a sizzling couple if they can ever get past the impulse to run the other way every time romance comes into view. Then again, they have to stay alive if they’re ever to see... Continue Reading →
Professional badass Luki Vasquez and weaver Sonny James meet for the first time in Loving Luki Vasquez, and they might make a sizzling couple if they can ever get past the impulse to run the other way every time romance comes into view. Then again, they have to stay alive if they’re ever to see... Continue Reading →
“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again.” ― Amy Tan Title: Cross & Crown Author: Abigail Roux Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 248 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Nick O'Flaherty arrives at the scene of a double homicide to find he has a witness... Continue Reading →
“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again.” ― Amy Tan Title: Cross & Crown Author: Abigail Roux Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 248 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Nick O'Flaherty arrives at the scene of a double homicide to find he has a witness... Continue Reading →
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be more for you.” Ian frowned, then dismissed the words with a huff. “Months of sex with a whole lot of laughing and beer? Nothing wrong with that.” — R.J. Scott Title: A Reason to Stay (Heroes #1) Author: R.J. Scott Publisher: Love Lane Books Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 3.5... Continue Reading →
“I’m sorry I couldn’t be more for you.” Ian frowned, then dismissed the words with a huff. “Months of sex with a whole lot of laughing and beer? Nothing wrong with that.” — R.J. Scott Title: A Reason to Stay (Heroes #1) Author: R.J. Scott Publisher: Love Lane Books Pages/Word Count: 290 Pages Rating: 3.5... Continue Reading →
“True love doesn't need proof. The eyes told what the heart felt.” ― Toba Beta Title: Floodgates Author: Mary Calmes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 234 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Tracy Brandt considers himself a lucky man. He has a wonderful family, good friends, and a dependable job. His love life, however, features a... Continue Reading →
“True love doesn't need proof. The eyes told what the heart felt.” ― Toba Beta Title: Floodgates Author: Mary Calmes Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 234 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Tracy Brandt considers himself a lucky man. He has a wonderful family, good friends, and a dependable job. His love life, however, features a... Continue Reading →
“Murder is easy if no one suspects you.” ― AgathaChristie Title: Foxe Fire (Skyler Foxe Mysteries #4) Author: Haley Walsh Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 257 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Can out-and-proud high school teacher Skyler Foxe find the Redlands firebug before he falls prey to a killer? High school English teacher Skyler Foxe... Continue Reading →
“Murder is easy if no one suspects you.” ― AgathaChristie Title: Foxe Fire (Skyler Foxe Mysteries #4) Author: Haley Walsh Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 257 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Can out-and-proud high school teacher Skyler Foxe find the Redlands firebug before he falls prey to a killer? High school English teacher Skyler Foxe... Continue Reading →
“The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.” ― Leo Tolstoy Title: Turnbull House Author: Jess Faraday Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages/Word Count: 288 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: London 1891. Former criminal Ira Adler has built a respectable, if... Continue Reading →
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