Cheryl's Book Nook

  Just sign on the dotted line… Queenie Running from my problems seemed like a good idea at the time, but staying here in this small little roadside club in Texas is a far cry from where I was last winter. I’m afraid of my sins, but the demon who knows all my flaws is out there searching for me. He’s gone to make sure he’s the only devil in my life. Cole Hunting down my trespasser is a bit of a task when she’s gone out of her way to hide, but a little bit of effort won’t deter me. I’ll remind her why our darkness bloomed so beautifully, and I’ll make sure to remove the rest of her demons in her life while I’m at it. A fast burn, mask play, who hurt you romance. This is part of a series of novellas written based on locations I travel to for book signings. Each book can be read entirely as a stand alone in any order. This the second book for this couple but can be read with or without the first book: Kentucky Volume. If you are here from Rules of Play, this can also be read as the en...

  Murder always seems to strike… at the worst possible time. Life threw a curve ball at dog trainer and amateur sleuth, Eve, that she never expected. After the loss of her landlord, his widow asked if there’s any way that Eve can move out by Christmas. Since she never signed her new lease, Eve knows she doesn’t have many options and has to act quickly. She and Aidan are scrambling to find a house because their timeline has been accelerated. It’s a fun, if stressful, experience, right up until they arrive at a listing that they’re supposed to be touring, only to discover that their real estate agent arrived before they did…and was murdered. The mystery turns even more eerie when Eve learns that the murder hits way too close to home. In the midst of everything, she has no choice but to investigate. Can she dig up the truth quickly enough so that she won’t be without a house? Find out in this exciting Canine Cozy Mystery! My Review House hunting is already difficult enough. Yet, you a...

  He’s the internet’s favorite Shirtless Chef. I’m the only woman in town who's not impressed. Bianca My grandmother invited her former best friend to move in for the month of October and help run our annual pumpkin patch. To our surprise, she brings her grandson Giovanni—a thirty-something Italian playboy who calls me Doctor Death because I’m a former hospice nurse. (At least he gave me a promotion?) The whole situation is suspicious. What grown man willingly goes on a month-long walkabout with his grandmother? He and my brother used to be close, but that was years ago. Then we find out Giovanni isn't just visiting Apple Ridge. He’s hiding. Apparently, he’s the anonymous YouTube sensation known as The Shirtless Chef. He was recently unmasked in his hometown and left to escape the chaos. Unfortunately for him, a reporter tracks him down after a national magazine names him their official Mr. October. Now tourists are swarming. Women are throwing themselves at him. My grandmother...

  I read the grumpy skeptic's fortune in the bottom of a coffee cup. The grounds say he'll find true love, but I tell him to expect a flirty fall fling … In my defense, he thinks I'm a fraud and made it clear he doesn't believe in l-o-v-e. I try to forget him, but he keeps appearing wherever I go. Then he offers me five grand per hour to break a family curse he swears is real. Considering I need the money to repair the roof of my haunted manor, I help him. Our sessions end before the autumn equinox, and instead of walking away he proposes a new deal: be each other's until Halloween. Against my better judgment, I agree, but with strict rules. Between sneaking around at the apple orchard and finding each other in the hay maze, I catch myself not wanting to keep him my dirty little secret. The town's meddling matchmakers don't know their beloved Jamie is Jameson Cross, a billionaire in hiding. Or that he's in my bed every night. When the paparazzi track hi...

  Trapped by a man who said he loved her. Trapped by a man who said he would never do it again. Trapped in a marriage that had long lost its love. There was a darker secret that Sigmund never told. He was trapped in a game, that once you play… There was no escape. No other way out. With each pawn in place. The Game Master can begin. One was Innocent. One was Tarnished. One was Guilty. Another was a stalker. Another was a killer. Death. Obsession. When the Game Master has their hands on you. There’s no escape. My Review Sigmund awakes to find himself with blood on his hands...literally. Before he can comprehend what has happened, he gets a phone call. He is told he has to play a game or his wife; Ember will meet her demise.  I have not read any of the prior books in this series. Yet, this book can be read as a standalone novel. If you like horror books or movies like Saw or Escape Room themed movies, then, you will want to check out this book. I do want to say though that the g...

  Step beyond the rain-covered glass and into a greenhouse that awakens only after nightfall. In The Greenhouse That Bloomed Only at Night, a lone caretaker moves quietly through the lantern-lit corridors of a vast Victorian greenhouse while rain falls steadily against the outer glass and rare flowers slowly unfold beneath the humid dark. Through fern passages, orchid chambers, lily pools, tropical domes and elevated iron walkways, the greenhouse follows its long nocturnal rhythm while the outside world disappears into mist, condensation and silence. Written as a calm and immersive sleep story for adults, this atmospheric bedtime story unfolds slowly across a single rain-soaked night. Heating pipes murmur beneath old stone floors. Lantern reflections move across wet glass. Water gathers on leaves and iron framework while night-blooming flowers open according to the warmth, humidity and passing hours before dawn. There is no danger here. No violence. No urgency. Only the quiet movem...