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  Shadows come from the mirror… And then there are nightmares. A month after Nora and her friend from the mirror, Jesse, defeated the doppelganger who haunts mirrors, life has returned to normal. For Nora. A relic from a past era, thirteen-year-old Jesse has a difficult time adjusting to the twenty-first century. Jesse fears the ghosts of souls, the Bad Ones, lurking in the reflections, are planning on seeping through the mirror and dragging him back. Only when the voice of a friend from the past begs for his help from inside the mirror, Jesse has to choose between living in fear or facing the Bad Ones in the mirror once and for all. Lies. Betrayal. Hope… Nothing is as it seems   My Review I first read Fake Nora where Jesse was introduced. From there I was hooked. I had to know more about Jesse's story and requested that Jesse's story be written. I was not alone in my request and thus The Bad Ones was written. I felt bad for Jesse having to learn to readjust to the "real...

Welcome to the 3rd exciting instalment in the Birth of the Fae series, From the Ashes by Danielle M. Orsino. Read on for more details and a chance to win a fantastic giveaway! From the Ashes Genre:  Fantasy/ Fae Publication Date: January 20th, 2022 Queen Aurora and King Jarvok are finding that there is a thin line between love, hate, and Oblivion. The war between the Court of Light and Dark has finally ended, and peace reigns. The Court of Light continued advising the human monarchs of Europe while the Court of Dark kept to themselves, intervening only to act as the humans Dark Gods and Goddesses. The two Courts were both upholding their respective duties as written by the Treaty of Bodhicitta, until Queen Mary the first of England reneges on a Changeling contract with the Court of Light. This unfortunate act puts events in motion which led to the last Fire Drake, Bishop Awynn, making the ultimate sacrifice. Awynn loses his light while saving The Dark Fae King during a t...

  A heart-pounding race for home and treasure. Kari Bell is a hard core loner. Her debilitating panic attacks have her dependent on potions, salves and thunder shirts for humans. She is summoned to a childhood home to bury her father and conceal her mother's bloody secret. After that trauma, she buys a rundown ranch house surrounded by pasture and woodland at the end of an isolated rural road. Her two corgis and a Siamese cat are her world. In a single nightly dog walk, her fragile state of calm is gutted. Set in an historic gossipy town whose glory days are behind it, Kari Bell's homestead is on land that was once part of a grand plantation. Reggie Raintree, the last Raintree Plantation heir, has returned on a mission to locate and excavate ancient gold hidden somewhere on his family's remaining acreage. All maps, however, appear to point to Kari's little plot. Raintree wants it back. In search of a mate, he posts an ad on a foreign bride website with the headline, ...

  As a child in Lincoln, Montana, in the 1980s and '90s, Jamie Gehring had no idea that Ted Kaczynski--the self-sustaining hermit in the adjacent cabin--was anything more than the neighbor who brought her painted rocks as a gift. Ted was simply Ted, and erratic behavior, surprise visits, and chilling events while she was riding horses or helping her dad at his sawmill were dismissed because he was "just the odd hermit." He was, in fact, the Unabomber, for seventeen years mailing explosives to strangers, the longest-running domestic terrorist in American history. As an adult with this knowledge, the innocence of her youth robbed, Gehring needed to reconcile her lived experience with the evil that hid in plain sight. In this book, through years of research probing Ted's personal history, his writings, his secret coded crime journals, her own correspondence with him in his Supermax prison cell, plus interviews with others close to Kaczynski, Gehring unearths the complexi...

  Holt Cook was never meant to be a dragon rider. He has always served the Order Hall of the Crag dutifully, keeping their kitchen pots clean. Until he discovers a dark secret: dragons do not tolerate weakness among their kin, killing the young they deem flawed. Moved by pity, Holt defies the Order, rescues a doomed egg and vows to protect the blind dragon within. But the Scourge is rising. Undead hordes roam the land, spreading the blight and leaving destruction in their wake. The dragon riders are being slaughtered and betrayal lurks in the shadows. Holt has one chance to survive. He must cultivate the mysterious power of his dragon's magical core. A unique energy which may tip the balance in the battles to come, and prove to the world that a servant is worthy after all. My Review This book is the type that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. It has a bit of everything...adventure, a wonderful world, great storyline, and engaging characters. Instantly, I was invested in this s...

  Jessica Ann McKenzie—“Jam” to everyone in Honey Creek—has fulfilled her dream of owning the best restaurant for miles around. Serving candlelit dinners to every couple in town on Valentine’s Day is a reminder of another dream, one she’s just about given up on. Until, that very night, Sergeant Tucson Smith clambers out of the muddy river and onto her land, bringing the promise of something they’ve both been searching for. When McCoy Mason crashes on Interstate 45, he doesn’t just bust up his Mustang, his leg, and his relationship. He also loses his prospects of a job and apartment in Houston. Honey Creek, home to his estranged grandfather, offers a temporary respite, a place to recover before moving on again. After all, what permanent use could a town so picture-perfect have for a man like him? At sixty-seven, Charles H. Winston III lives by order and routine. One of his most cherished rituals is a regular lunch date with three lovely ladies at the Honey Creek Café, including the ...

  Born in blood and raised in sin. I’m the daughter to the most prolific serial killer in the United States. Madness flows through my veins like a drug, pulling me deeper into the abyss that I can’t escape from. I feel the mania slowly burning through my veins. How much longer until it consumes me completely? It’s when I meet Caelian Morelli that everything changes. A man whose darkness matches mine. He lives for death. An assassin. A murderer. Son of the Morelli mafia, he’s both possessive and vicious in the way he watches me. There’s something about his devilish nature that draws me in. He’s the match to my flame. I tell myself we are an impossibility. But it doesn’t stop me from walking straight into the fire. Though, when my past becomes my present, my life hangs in the balance. I’ve always wanted to be the hunter, though in the end, will I become the hunted? My Review This book is my first introduction to author, A.R. Breck. Instantly, I was invested in this book and the chara...

  A full one-fifth of the United States has engaged in consensual non-monogamy (CNM) at some point in their lives, and 29 percent of adults under thirty today consider open relationships to be morally acceptable—yet there are few resources to turn to when it comes to navigating this more non-traditional and explorative territory. Picking up where CNM self-help books like  Opening Up, The Ethical Slut , and  More Than Two  leave off,  Open Deeply  tackles the most difficult challenges posed by CNM. Therapist Kate Loree—who has practiced non-monogamy since 2003, and who specializes in treating clients who also practice non-monogamy—pulls no punches as she uses vignettes based on her own life, as well as her clients’ experiences, to illustrate the highs, lows, and in-betweens of life as a consensual non-monogamist. Interwoven with these stories are thorough explanations of how attachment theory impacts non-monogamy, how blending cutting-edge, neurobiology-info...

  As her sweetheart’s body lies cooling on the living room floor, Joni Sensel shattered but not surprised, revisits her premonition about this moment. From nearly the start of their fairytale romance less than four years ago, she knew she would lose Tony, the man she considered to be her soulmate. He was in great health, but fate had other plans a hard truth that visited Joni in the form of a startling vision during their second weekend together. Though she kept the premonition a secret while Tony was alive, upon his death she’s compelled to share it with his spirit in the form of a letter. A grief memoir with a paranormal twist,  Feeling Fate  explores how a dark intuition magnified Sensel’s love and gratitude in the time she and Tony had together before her premonition came true. Faced with evidence of a grand design alongside her grief, she’s torn between faith and skepticism. While she’s nearly undone by the pain of her loss, she eventually discovers that a sassy imag...

  The Reincarnation Series, Book 2 Reginald Cast and Charlotte Tremmington share forbidden love. He's a slave in 1860. She's a plantation owner's daughter. After one glorious night together, their world is ripped apart. Charlotte is killed in a fit of rage by Julius Barclay, would-be suitor and Reginald's owner. He then blames Reginald and attempts to kill him as well. With Reginald's escape, an encounter with a vampire – the beautiful Syre – gives him a chance at eternity and a reunion with his love. Renata Charles, a modern-day estate sales director, is enchanted by a vintage yellow dress that spurs vivid daydreams of another time. She soon learns the visions are glimpses of her life as Charlotte, and the mysterious and appealing Reggie was her lover. When the past comes back to haunt them, their chance at forever is threatened. Will Reginald save his beloved and finally put an end to the evil trying to keep them apart? Can Renata come to terms with who she is and...

  He is a man with a checkered past. When he went off the grid before officially joining the club, he did things that no man could ever be proud of. And now? Now he's the Sergeant in Arms of the Hell Hounds MC - a position he has been honed for. He wasn’t made to lead, but to protect his club? Now that he could do. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the sweet, graphic designer friend of Sadie Priest - Vivenne is pregnant after one passionate encounter with her. Only, Vivienne is not who she says she is, and now their club is at war because he sullied the Don’s princess. But Ammo is not quite ready to walk away from his small, budding family - no matter how much he doesn’t deserve them, and Sadie would die for her friends. So, The Hell Hounds MC find themselves ready to burn the world down for Vivienne. I couldn't pretend to be uninvolved anymore, and I was done sitting here as a pawn in my father's world. If I was going to survive this and get back to Ammo, then I ...

The Twisted Road Home by K.B. Barrett is available now! One-Click: https://books2read.com/twistedroadshome Add it to your TBR on Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3MXjLF2 She grew up in the perfect American family. He’s from the wrong side of the tracks. She’s just starting out in life. He’s got baggage from his past dragging him down. She believes marriage is a joke. He’s been waiting for someone like her his whole life. She needs someone to help her believe in love. He needs someone who will never give up. Can two people finally let their guard down enough to grab ahold of what is in front of them, and learn to never let go? And what happens when forces outside their control try to rip them apart? My Review This book is a really good start to this new series from author, K. B. Barrett. I am a sucker for cute kids in stories. Ben is no exception. When he did make an appearance, he brought some humor to the story. While kids are entertaining, the real heat came from Branson and Emma. Yes, ...

  Taking over her family’s charming and historic Red Rose Inn is a dream for Kira Davis--even if it means the extra stress of knowing the entire Davis clan is watching her every move. But ignoring her family’s wishes and hiring too-handsome Franklin Bennett as her temporary new manager might be a huge mistake...given their families’ decades-long feud. Yet attraction still sparks between them, proving to ex-army engineer Franklin there’s something real beneath the surface. Something hopeful. Something unmistakable. But pursuing Kira could prove dangerous for a man with an uncertain future. Now Kira and Franklin are caught between an ancient family feud and their feelings for each other. The only way they can love each other is by unraveling the terrible truth about what happened back then...and hope that love is strong enough to mend the break from so long ago. My Review I liked this book. I found it to be a charming read. I liked that Kira was willing to give Franklin a chance; des...