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Wolf Under fire

Welcome to my blog tour of Wolf Under Fire 

 

Paige Tyler

Publication Date: 5/26/2020

 

For the cases no one else can solve, they send in the Special Threat Assessment Team

 

Supernatural creatures are no longer keeping their existence secret from humans, causing panic around the globe. To investigate, monitor, and—when necessary—take down dangerous supernatural offenders, an international task force was established: The Special Threat Assessment Team.

 

STAT agent Jestina Ridley is in London with her team investigating a suspicious kidnapping. Over her radio, Jes hears her teammates being savagely attacked. She runs to help, but she’s too late. The only survivor, Jes calls for backup and gets former Navy SEAL and alpha werewolf Jake Huang and his new pack. Convinced that the creature who butchered her teammates was a werewolf, Jes doesn’t trust them. But if they’re going to uncover the facts and make it back home alive, she’ll need Jake’s help. And with everything on the line, Jes will have to accept Jake for who he is, or lose the partner she never expected to find…

 

Paige Tyler is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of sexy, romantic fiction. Paige writes books about hunky alpha males and the kick-butt heroines they fall in love with. She lives with her very own military hero (a.k.a. her husband) and their adorable dog on the beautiful Florida coast. Visit www.paigetylertheauthor.com.

 

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Excerpt: 

Jes sprinted down the hall without giving it a second thought. Grabbing the last man through the door by the collar of his jacket, she yanked him backward, flipping him over her hip and slamming him to the floor before he knew what was happening.

Balling her hand into a fist, she punched him in the throat hard enough to stun him, then ripped his pistol out of his grasp while he was gasping for air. Refusing to think about the brutality of the situation, she placed the barrel of the large-caliber automatic against the man’s chest and squeezed the trigger. In this position, the recoil of the big weapon was ferocious, but she ignored it—and the resulting blood—focusing instead on snagging the extra magazine from the man’s underarm holster.

Getting to her feet, she approached the room carefully. The last thing she needed was to catch a stray round from one of the guards—or Jake.

Pressing her back against the wall outside the open door, Jes darted to take a quick look inside. The room was filled with acrid smoke from the flashbangs, but she could still see the dead bodies strewn across the floor. Jake and Misty were nowhere in sight and something told her they’d taken cover behind the heavy desk that was flipped over.

The piece of furniture was thick enough to stop the spray of bullets the men were popping off, but the gunfire was so intense Jake couldn’t even try and get off a shot in return. Since the bad guys were already spreading wide to circle around and come at the desk from both sides, the situation was only going to get worse.

What if Jake had already been hit?

That thought scared the hell out of her. She’d heard a werewolf could absorb a lot of damage, but how much was too much?

“Backup’s arrived,” Jes announced loud enough for Jake to hear her in his earbud, even over the gunfire, then took aim and started shooting.

The moment the men realized someone was coming at them from behind, they turned their weapons on her. At the same time, Jake popped up from behind the desk and began blazing away with the automatic in his hand. Bodies started dropping under the combined effort.

Jes was sure they’d gained the upper hand, but then a flashbang came at her through the light haze of smoke still filling the room from the previous ones. Cursing, she leaped back into the hallway to keep it from blowing up right in her face. She hit the floor hard, the air getting knocked out of her. Ears ringing, she scrambled around and lifted her pistol, knowing a bad guy would be coming to finish her.

But no one did. A moment later, the shooting stopped. It was immediately replaced with a roar and a growl that seemed to echo through the house and make the entire third floor vibrate.

Jes quickly climbed to her feet, only to fall on her butt again as Jake and Damien crashed through the wall. Somewhere along the way, they’d lost their weapons and were now locked in hand-to-hand combat, like two enraged monsters. Jake wasn’t the only one with claws, either. Damien had them, too.

Jake had been sure the creature that had attacked Jaime and Neal wasn’t a werewolf, but seeing Damien fight, she was beginning to think Jake had been wrong.

Jes got up on one knee, trying to get a shot at Damien, but he and Jake were moving way too fast as they smashed each other into first one side of the hallway, then the other, fists slamming into their opponent so hard she could hear bones break.

She was about to say the hell with it and take a shot at Damien regardless of the risk, but then he slung Jake bodily across the hall, bouncing him off the wall. Even though it had to hurt, Jake immediately jumped to his feet and kicked Damien in the center of his chest, shoving him halfway down the hallway.

Jes didn’t waste the opportunity. Lifting her weapon, she emptied the remainder of her magazine in the man’s chest. Damien flew backward from the impact of all those rounds hitting, slamming into the floor so hard she felt it. She didn’t give a crap if he was a werewolf. That many bullets through the center of his chest had to mean he was freaking dead.

Dropping the spent clip, she quickly slammed a new magazine in and chambered a round. The son of a bitch had killed Jaime and Neal and tried to do the same to Jake. It took everything in her not to put all the bullets in the fresh magazine into him. The only thing stopping her was the knowledge that she might need them if they had to fight their way out of the manor.

She was so focused on keeping her weapon trained on Damien where he lay on the floor, she didn’t even realize Jake had disappeared back into the room until he ran out with a limp Misty in his arms. Jes’s heart sank like a stone.

“We need to go,” Jake said, striding past her and heading down the hallway away from the steps. “We’re about to have more company.”

Jes didn’t ask how Jake knew that. She simply chased after him.

The fight with Damien must have caused him some serious damage, but Jake carried Misty without slowing down. They were almost at the end of the corridor when she heard the thud of footsteps on the stairs behind them.

Jes glanced over her shoulder to see at least ten armed men reaching the third floor. That was bad enough. But then Damien sat up, shirt covered in blood and looking pissed as hell…and not nearly as dead as he should be. Suddenly, the group of armed men didn’t seem like a big deal. Damien worried her way more.

Turning, she sprayed the men—and Damien—with half the rounds in the magazine just to make them duck, then ran after Jake again. She expected him to seek refuge in the last room along the hallway. Instead, he yanked open the french doors at the end of the corridor with one hand, exposing a small Juliet balcony.

What the hell were they going to do with that? It wasn’t like they could hide out there. The balcony was too shallow. Besides, Damien and the rest of Darby’s men had already seen where they were headed.

Jes was about to ask Jake as much when he gently placed Misty on the floor. Before she could question the move, he turned, put both hands on Jes’s waist, then swung her over the metal railing of the balcony, holding her by one wrist and dangling her like a toy.

“When I let you go, grab the railing of the veranda below us,” he said, dark eyes intent on hers.

Wait. What?

Jes opened her mouth to tell him he was insane—that she wasn’t a werewolf with superstrength and animallike reflexes like him—but she was already falling. She released the pistol she didn’t even realize she was holding, somehow miraculously grabbing the railing on the second-floor veranda before she fell to her death.

Crap. It felt like her shoulders were being ripped out of their sockets.

She was never doing that again.

Jes was still hanging there in midair when she felt as much as heard Jake leap past her. She looked down just in time to see him land on his feet on the lawn below her, Misty wrapped firmly in his arms.

He’d jumped from the third floor of a building—with someone in his arms—and landed on his feet.

Double crap.

Setting Misty on the ground, he scooped up the automatic pistol Jes had dropped, firing it at something above her. She flinched when the bullets struck the metal balcony, but then felt like cheering when the men up there grunted as other bullets struck flesh.

“Let go!” he shouted to Jes before shooting another volley at the floor above her. “I’ll catch you.”

That idea was even crazier than the first one, but Jes did it, falling at a dizzying speed. She opened her mouth to scream, unable to stop herself, but then strong arms snatched her out of the air before setting her on her feet. She barely had a chance to catch her balance before Jake grabbed her hand and dragged her away from the manor.

He scooped up Misty in one arm on the way even as bullets kicked up the grass all around them. Seconds later, the big Rolls-Royce SUV was barreling across the lawn toward them, Harley at the wheel. The moment it skidded to a stop, Forrest jumped out of the passenger seat to take Misty from Jake while Caleb got out of the back and fired a MAC-10 machine gun at the remaining men on the third floor. Jes wasn’t sure if he hit anyone, but they sure as hell ducked.

Jake led Jes past Caleb and practically shoved her into the backseat, then jumped in after her, deftly climbing over her to take the window. The big omega followed, sitting on the other side of her and yanking the door closed as Harley floored it, tearing the grass to all hell as they sped away.

 

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Excerpted from Wolf Under Fire by Paige Tyler. © 2020 by Paige Tyler. Used with permission of the publisher, Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

My thoughts

Rating: 5

Would I recommended it> Yes. in fact I've already to some of my friends and others that are in a facebook group with me about this one and the other series that go with it.

Would I read more of this series? Yes

Would I read more by this author? yes

A great start to her series that links to her other S.W.A.T series and after reading this one I'm looking forward to more her books as well as more from this series, every time I pick one of this up there's new characters to meet and fall in love with, but I do have to say that it took me a while to like Jestina, it was how she acted towards Jake's and his team, but the more I read and saw her start to change how she acted and I started to like her, does that mean she became one my favorite characters no but nobody could make that list like Jake. With that said I want to thank the publishers for letting me read and review it as well as NetGalley .

 

This is how I Lied

Title: This Is How I Lied

by Heather Gudenkauf 

Genre: Psychological Thriller

Pages:325

Rating: 4

Everyone has a secret they’ll do anything to hide…

Twenty-five years ago, the body of sixteen-year-old Eve Knox was found in the caves near her home in small-town Grotto, Iowa—discovered by her best friend, Maggie, and her sister, Nola. There were a handful of suspects, including her boyfriend, Nick, but without sufficient evidence the case ultimately went cold.

For decades Maggie was haunted by Eve’s death and that horrible night. Now a detective in Grotto, and seven months pregnant, she is thrust back into the past when a new piece of evidence surfaces and the case is reopened. As Maggie investigates and reexamines the clues, secrets about what really happened begin to emerge. But someone in town knows more than they’re letting on, and they’ll stop at nothing to keep the truth buried deep.

 

My thoughts

Would I recommend it? Yes, in fact I did this as a buddy read with some of the my friends when I told them I was reading it.

Would I read more by this author? Yes in fact I have have one other of her books of her's to read and that is Before She Was Found.

WOW what a great start to a new to me author, I should have already read her because as I said before I still have her other book Before She Was Found to  read, but after reading this one I can't wait to pick that one up and read it. This one had me from the start and it wouldn't let go, it seemed right from the start that everyone had a secret and that it was darker then the last one that was found out, so you couldn't tell who was telling the telling the truth or who to trust, and every time I thought I knew who the murder was something would come alone and there went that idea out the door. Another thing I liked was how it made you see the darkness in some of the characters which in turn made them creepy, with that said I wan to thank NetGalley for letting me read and review it .

A Court of Thorns and Rose

 

Title: A Court of Thorns and Roses

Series:A Court of Thorns and Roses #1

Author: Sarah J.Maas

Genre: High Fantasy

Pages:448

Rating: 4

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.

At least, he’s not a beast all the time.

As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

 

My thoughts

Would I recommend it? Yes

Would I read more of this series? Yes 

Would I read more by this author? Yes , in fact this is the second book by this author I've read .

I've been hear about this book ever since it came out and how some like it and others didn't care for it but I still wanted to read it and I'm so glad that I went to NetGalley when I did and found out that it was on there as a read now because other it might have been a while longer before I picked it up.Plus I always seem to have trouble getting in fairy tales retellings but for some unknown reason I didn't have that trouble at all,in fact once I started reading i didn't waiting to stop.The only trouble I had with the story was the main character herself Feyre , for most of the story I can't stand her at all. But the more I read the more i started to like her, now the question is did she become a favorite of mine and the answer is no , but I do like her. as for my favorites one of them was and is Tamil. As for the book it story itself here is what i thought :The characters and their development was spot on, there was none stop action from the very start to the very end,world and setting of this book was described perfectly and in a way that I could visualize everything,and made me feel like I actually want to there and visit. With that said I want to thank NetGalley For letting me read and review it .

The Meg

The Meg
(Meg #1)
by Steve Alten

Genre: Horror

Rating: 5

The most fearsome predator in history... Is no longer history

Seven miles down, on a top secret dive into the Pacific's deepest trench, Commander Jonas Taylor came face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator ever to inhabit the planet - Carcharodon Megalodon, the 60-foot, 70,000-pound prehistoric ancestor of the Great White shark.

Jonas escaped with his life - the dive's sole survivor - but his navy career was over, his nightmare encounter written off as a hallucination. But Jonas knows what he saw was real. He's determined to prove that Megalodon still feeds in the ocean's unexplored depths. Now, after seven years of research and study, he finally has his chance to return to the abyss.

Diving deeper than ever before, Jonas will face terror like he's never imagined. The Meg is about to surface and, when she does, nothing and no one is going to be safe.

Includes MEG: Origins.( 0.5) 

 

My thoughts 

Would I recommend it? Yes

Would I read more of this series? Yes in fact the very first book I every read was book 2 The Trench and just this year I was able to read the newest one book 6 
Generations thanks to NetGalley.

Would I read more by this author? Yes

As I stated before I had already started this series since I already owned books 2-4 and was able to get book 6 thanks to NetGalley , and I was so glad that I found this one on sell on Amazon for only $0.99 , and then to come to find out not only did I get The Meg but also in the copy of the book I got Origins ( Meg #0.5) other one I haven't read yet and now I've read both, and I can't wait to read the rest of the series, because I know this series is going to be one of my favorites to re read over and over again , list like how I've already seen the movie The Meg about eight times. I mean what's not to like it has everything in it I love when it comes to books like this, extinct species of shark ( that could still be alive to this day) vs mankind, non stop action, blood and gore, also it brings to live other types of extinct species that lived during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene along side the Meg and the very waters as them, plus other thing is has going for it is that once you start to read it , you won't or can't put it  down, 

 

 

A Royal Kiss & Tell

Welcome to my Blog Tour of Kiss & Tell

 

AUTHOR BIO:
Julia London is a NYT, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of historical and
contemporary romance. She is a six-time finalist for the RITA Award of excellence in romantic
fiction, and the recipient of RT Bookclub's Best Historical Novel.
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A Royal Kiss & Tell
London, Julia 
FICTION/Romance/Historical/Victorian 
Mass Market | HQN Books | A Royal Wedding #2
On Sale: 5/19/2020 
9781335136978
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SUMMARY:
Every prince has his secrets. And she’s determined to unravel his…
Every young man in London’s ton is vying for Lady Caroline Hawke’s hand—except one.
Handsome roué Prince Leopold of Alucia can’t quite remember Caroline’s name, and the insult
is not to be tolerated. So Caroline does what any clever, resourceful lady of means would do to
make sure Leo never again forgets: sees that scandalous morsels about his reputation are
printed in a ladies’ gossip gazette…all while secretly setting her cap for the rakish royal.
Someone has been painting Leo as a blackguard, but who? Socially, it is ruining him. More
important, it jeopardizes his investigation into a contemptible scheme that reaches the highest
levels of British government. Leo needs Lady Caroline’s help to regain access to society. But
this charming prince is about to discover that enlisting the deceptively sweet and sexy Lady
Caroline might just cost him his heart, his soul and both their reputations…

Since the day of Eliza’s betrothal to Prince Sebastian, Caroline had also assumed, quite
incorrectly, that she would be the principal bridesmaid. After all, she and Eliza and Hollis had been
entwined in one another’s lives since they were very little girls.
“I am content with flower girls, honestly,” Eliza said. “I’d be content with a very simple affair. I
was content with the civil ceremony. But Queen Daria prefers otherwise.”
“Naturally, she does. This is the wedding where you will be seen by all the people you will rule
one day.”
Eliza snorted. “I will not rule, Caroline. I’ll be fortunate if I can find my husband in this massive
place.” She’d gestured to the decorative walls around them. It was not an exaggeration—Constantine
Palace appeared to be bigger than even Buckingham.
“Let me be the maid of honor,” Caroline had begged her. “I am much better equipped to see to
your train than Hollis is.”
“I beg your pardon! I am her sister,” Hollis reminded Caroline.
“The train is thirty feet, Hollis. How will you ever manage? You’ve scarcely managed your own
train since we’ve been in Alucia. And my gown should be seen. I spared no expense for it.”
Eliza and Hollis looked at Caroline.
“I mean, of course, after your gown is seen.”
The sisters continued to stare at her. Caroline shrugged a very tiny bit. “Obviously,” she added.
“I rather thought that’s what you meant,” Eliza said charitably. The three of them had gleefully
adopted the Alucian style of dress since arriving a month ago in Helenamar. The English style of
dress—full skirts, high necks and long sleeves—was hot and heavy. They’d admired the beautiful Alucian
gowns that fit the curves of a woman’s body, with the long flowing sleeves, and, most of all, the
elaborately embroidered trains…until they discovered that the unusually long trains were a bit of a
bother to wear.
“I will manage,” Hollis had insisted. “No one has come to this wedding to see your gown, Caro.”
“Well, obviously, Hollis, they haven’t. But they will be delighted all the same, won’t they? And by
the bye, there’s no law that says the attendant of honor must be one’s sister.”
“There is no law, but she is my sister and she will be the attendant of honor,” Eliza said. “And
besides, if you were to stand with me, I’d fret the entire ceremony that you were too enthralled with
Leo to even notice my train.” She’d arched a golden brow directly at Caroline.
As if Caroline had done something wrong.
She most certainly had not. “Leo? Is that what we’re calling him now?” she drawled. Leo was
Prince Sebastian’s younger brother. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold.
Prince Leopold, as everyone knew, had spent the last several years in England, “attending”
Cambridge, which meant, in reality, that he spent more time at soirees and gentlemen’s clubs and

hunting lodges than studying. Caroline had encountered him last summer in Chichester at a country
house party. They’d engaged in a charming little exchange that Caroline recalled perfectly, word for
word. Prince Leopold, on the other hand, remembered it not at all. Worse, he didn’t seem to remember
her.
The archbishop’s voice suddenly rose into a chant of some sort, drawing Caroline’s attention
back to the ceremony. Oh dear, she was thinking about Prince Leopold again when she should be
watching her best friend marry a prince. At that moment, Eliza slipped her hand into Prince Sebastian’s
hand and held on tightly as the archbishop asked her to repeat after him in English. To love, to honor, to
protect and defend.
So romantic.
Caroline glanced to her right. She was seated next to her brother, the baron Beckett Hawke. He
was older than her by half a dozen years and had been her guardian since she was eight and he was
fourteen. She leaned against him.
“Isn’t she lovely?” she whispered.
“Ssh.”
“I think she is lovelier than even Queen Victoria on her wedding day,” Caroline whispered. “Her
gown is beautiful. It was my idea to use the gold and silver thread on the train.”
Beck pretended not to have heard a word.
“Do you know, I think I could have made that train.” Her brother put his hand on Caroline’s knee
and squeezed as he turned his pale green eyes to hers. He frowned darkly.
Caroline pushed his hand away and glanced around her. It was massive, this Saint Paul’s
Cathedral. Painted ceilings soared overhead with visions of angels and other godly images. All the
fixtures were gold plated, particularly the pulpit, which looked more like a monument than a stand for
the Bible. There was so much stained glass that the morning light fractured across Eliza’s long train,
turning it into a moving rainbow as sunlight shimmered through the panes.
Every seat in the massive cathedral was taken, filled with beautiful people of varying skin tones
and colorful costumes and glittering jewels. They had come far and wide, Caroline understood, from
countries she’d never even heard of.
In a cove above the altar, a choir of young men and boys sang the hymns that had accompanied
Eliza down the center aisle to meet her prince. It had sounded as if the heavens had parted and the
angels were singing for this bride.
The ceremony, almost an hour of it now, was filled with a lot of pomp and circumstance.
Caroline wasn’t entirely certain what was happening, as the ceremony was conducted in Latin and
Alucian and, for the parts Eliza had to say, in English. It seemed to her that Eliza and Sebastian were up
and down quite a lot, one minute on their knees with their heads bowed, and standing the next, staring
starry-eyed at each other. There was a somber moment when Eliza was directed down onto her knees
alone. It looked as if she were knighted or anointed in some way, and when it was done, the archbishop

put his hand to her head, the king and queen stood, and then Prince Sebastian lifted her up and pinned
a gorgeous sapphire-and-gold brooch to her breast.
“She’s a real princess now,” Caroline whispered to Beck. Predictably, he ignored her.
Eliza looked like a princess, too, and Caroline wished Eliza’s father, Justice Tricklebank, could be
here. Alas, his advanced age and blindness had made it impossible for him to attend. There had been a
smaller, private ceremony in England—the first civil union—before Sebastian had returned to Alucia.
That ceremony, which her father had attended, had been necessitated by the fact that Eliza and
Sebastian could not seem to keep their hands from each other for as much as a few hours.
There was another civil union once Eliza had arrived in Alucia so there would be no question of
impropriety, as the heat between Eliza and her prince had only grown. It was embarrassing, really.
But neither ceremony had been anything like this. This was a pageant, a feast for the eyes and
hearts of romantics everywhere.
Caroline’s mind drifted, and she wondered if all these people would be at the ball tonight. She
hoped so. She had a beautiful blue Alucian gown trimmed in gold that was astoundingly beautiful. She’d
made the train herself. The ball would be her moment to shine…next to Eliza, of course.
Yesterday, Eliza had nervously counted out the heads of state that would attend the wedding
and the ball and had turned a bit pale as the number mounted. Caroline’s pulse had leapt with delight.
“I can’t bear it!” Eliza had exclaimed, unnerved by the number of dignitaries, of the many kings
and queens. “What if I say something wrong? You know how I am. Have you any idea how many gifts
we’ve received? Am I to remember them all? I’ve never seen so many gold chalices and silver platters
and fine porcelain in all my life! What if I trip? What if I spill something on my gown?”
“My advice, darling, is not to fill your plate to overflowing,” Hollis had said absently. She was
bent over her paper, making notes for the periodical she published, the Honeycutt’s Gazette of Fashion
and Domesticity for Ladies. The twice-monthly gazette covered such topics as the latest fashions,
domesticity and health advice, and—the most interesting part—the most tantalizing on-dits swirling
about London’s high society.
Hollis could hardly keep up with the ravenous demand for society news now. She was planning
to publish a gazette that would be twice the length of her normal offering with all the news of the royal
wedding the moment she returned to London. She’d been busily dispatching letters to her manservant,
Donovan, for safekeeping throughout the month they’d been in Alucia.
She was so preoccupied that her advice, while offered freely, was not offered with much
thought, and Eliza took exception. “I beg your pardon! I’ve hardly eaten a thing since I’ve arrived in
Alucia. At every meal the queen looks at me as if she disapproves of everything I do! I’m afraid to do
anything, much less eat,” Eliza complained. “They’ll all be looking at me. They’ll be waiting for me to do
something wrong, or speculating if I’m already carrying the heir. You cannot imagine how much interest 

there is in my ability to bear an heir.”

 

“Well, of course!” Caroline said cheerfully. “You’ll have to be a broodmare, darling, but after
you’ve given them what they want, you may live in conjugal bliss for the rest of your days surrounded by
wealth and privilege and many, many servants.”
“They won’t all be looking at you, Eliza. At least half the room will be looking at your handsome
husband,” Hollis had said with a wink.
Caroline was once again jolted back into the present when the archbishop lifted a heavy jeweled
chalice above the heads of Eliza and Prince Sebastian. Surely that meant they were nearly done? Prince
Sebastian took Eliza’s hand, and they turned away from the archbishop, facing the guests with
ridiculously happy grins on their faces. They were married!
Hollis turned, too, and even from where Caroline sat, she could see Hollis’s dark blue eyes
shining with tears of joy. The guests rose to their feet as the prince and his bride began their procession
away from the altar. Rose petals rained down on the couple and their guests from above. The little
flower girls fluttered around behind Eliza like butterflies, flanking her train as they followed the couple
down the aisle. Prince Leopold offered his arm to Hollis, and she beamed up at him. Caroline felt left
out. Hollis and Eliza were near and dear to her heart, the closest thing to sisters she’d ever had, and she
longed to be with them now.
Eliza and Prince Sebastian floated past Caroline and Beck without any acknowledgment of them.
That was to be expected—the two of them looked absolutely besotted. They were so enthralled with
each other, in fact, that Caroline fretted they’d walk into any one of the marble columns that lined their
path.
Oh, but she was envious, filled to the very brim with envy. In England, she rarely gave marriage
any thought except on those occasions Beck complained she ought to settle on someone, anyone, and
relieve him of his duty. But he didn’t really mind his duty, his protestations notwithstanding. Caroline
rather suspected he liked having her underfoot. So she flitted from one party to the next, happy to enjoy
the attentions of the many gentlemen who crossed her path, happy with her freedom to do as she
pleased.
But looking at Eliza, Caroline realized that she did indeed want one day to be in love with a man
who would be as devoted to her as Prince Sebastian was to his bride. She wanted to feel everything Eliza
was feeling, to understand just how that sort of love changed a person.
Prince Leopold and Hollis passed by Caroline and Beck. Hollis’s face was streaked with happy
tears. Prince Leopold happened to look to the guests as they passed, a polite smile on his face. His gaze
locked on Caroline’s—well, not locked, really, as much as it skimmed over her—but nevertheless, she
smiled broadly. She began to lift a hand but was suddenly jostled with an elbow to her ribs. She jerked a
wide-eyed gaze to her brother.
“Stop gawking,” he whispered. “You’ll snap your neck, craning it like that.”
Caroline haughtily touched a curl at her neck.
Beck turned his attention to the procession. The king and queen were passing them now. Beck
leaned toward her and whispered, “He’s a prince, Caro, and you are just an English girl. You’re indulging
in fairy tales again. I can see it plainly on your face.”

Just an English girl? She very much would have liked to kick Beck like she used to do when she
was just a wee English girl. “Better to dream in fairy tales than not dream at all.”
Beck rolled his eyes. He stood dispassionately as the archbishop and his altar boys followed the
king and queen.
Just an English girl, indeed.

 

My thoughts

Rating 4

Would I recommend it? yes 

Would I read more of this series? yes

Would I read more more this author? yes

 Note:
there is mentioning of slave-trade and trafficking but its not the main part of the story
First off I want to thank HQN Books for inviting me to read and review it and for their help in finding a new author to read, second this is the first time I've read anything by this author and even though this is the second book to A Royal Wedding series I would say pick up book one first to read that way you can meet and understand who the characters are. As for the characters themselves there was one that got on my nerves and that was Caro, how she acted not only towards her friends but towards the other characters in the book ,well lets just say there was times I wanted to ring her neck. And even though she was put in her place by someone that just made her act more like a spoiled brat who thought that they was never in the wrong , but luckily she was able to redeem herself in my eyes, did she become a favorite no but it got to the point where I could stand to like her and could see her finally growing up and that was mostly to her spend time with Leo . As for the romance its self its not a fast growing one , in fact it slow , which helps the story along much better than a fast one would , because doing that time you see the characters start to coming in to themselves which is great but the only downside is to the story is that I wish the author had not down played the slave-trade and trafficking, over all its a 4 star read because of how strong the characters are, how the story was written and how it comes to life, and at times it even had me smiling at what was going on, and while it did take me a while to like Caro , I did enjoy the story so much so that I didn't want to stop reading it, with that said I also want to say thank you to NetGalley for also letting me read and review it

Remember Me

 

Title : Remember 

Series: None

Author: D.E.White

Genre:  Psychological Fiction

Rating: 4

 

Fifteen years ago Ellen Smith vanished from the woods near her small Welsh village. Never to be seen again.
Eight people were in the woods that night: eight splintered lives, eight people hiding a terrible secret. But who can remember the truth?

Now, Ellen’s best friend, Detective Ava Cole is all grown up back in the village where it all began, and everyone is asking the same question.

What really happened to Ellen?

Filled with shocking discoveries and traumatic memories this fast paced thriller is perfect for fans of Friend Request and Close to Home

 

My thoughts

Would I recommend it? Yes.

Would I read more by this author? Yes

This is the first time I've ever read anything by this author and already I want to check out her other book Glass Dolls, because while it was slow and took me a while to get into I actually like how the story was working it self out, because not once did I want to stop reading, though out the story it had me wondering who could be send the message to Ava, did they have anything to do with her friend's disappearance or something else. And who could be after her, there's a lot of characters in this story but they each have a part to play in the story and it some how works out really well in the end. And I think the reason it works is because of how intriguing and suspenseful  it is and with all of those characters and everyone seems to be hiding something, Your caught up in the story itself, with that said I want to thank NetGalley thanks for letting me read and review it.

The Suicide House

The Suicide House
(Rory Moore/Lane Phillips #2)

by 

by Charlie Donlea
 
A chilling murder in a prestigious prep school is at the heart of this riveting new novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips.

Inside the walls of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont's students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don't let your candle go out--unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find you. . . .

One year ago, two students were killed there in a grisly slaughter. The case has since become the focus of a hit podcast, The Suicide House. Though a teacher was convicted of the murders, mysteries and questions remain. The most urgent among them is why so many students who survived that horrific night have returned to the boarding house--to kill themselves.

Rory, an expert in reconstructing cold cases, is working on The Suicide House podcast with Lane, recreating the night of the killings in order to find answers that have eluded the school, the town, and the police. But the more they learn about the troubled students, the chillingly stoic culprit, and a dangerous game gone tragically wrong, the more convinced they become that something sinister is still happening. Inside Westmont Prep, the game hasn't ended. It thrives on secrecy and silence. And for its players, there may be no way to win--or to survive.
 
My thoughts
trigger warning: suicide as well as depression
Would i recommend it? Yes
Would i read more of this series? Yes
Would i read more by this author? Yes
For a second book in a series this is way better than the first one, in this one we get to seem more
of Rory working on the dolls and it goes into more detail of what kindle of brushes and the stuff
she uses.Plus we see more of Lane as well and see more of what his job deals with .Another thing i liked about this one is how the author bright them more to life as well as the other characters. While there are more twist and turns and what seems a lot more going on in the background some how the author pulled it all together so that that the story line worked.I do have to say the story is told in different timelines and at times can be somewhat confusing but once again the author makes it work. It also makes you question yourself about the deaths of the students. Because the entire time i was reading it i kept asking myself was it suicide or was they killed because of something they did or might have seen.So if you read the first one then you need to check this one out just because of how bit more dark and twisted it is. With that said i want to thank NetGalley for letting me read and review it

Proof of Murder

Proof of Murder (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #4)

Title: Proof Of Murder

Series: Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #4

Author:Lauren Elliott 

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 3

Bookshop owner Addie Greyborne must solve a locked-room murder in a supposedly haunted mansion to recover a priceless Sherlock Holmes original in the fourth book of Lauren Elliott's literary themed Addie Greyborne Mystery series.

Bookshop owner Addie Greyborne must solve a locked-room murder in a supposedly haunted mansion to recover a priceless Sherlock Holmes original . . .

The seaside New England town of Greyborne Harbor is home to many grand estates, including the Queen Anne Victorian Addie inherited from her great aunt. Now one of those mansions is holding an estate sale, which is just what the bookshop owner needs to replenish her supply of rare editions--even if the house is rumored to be haunted. Assisting an overwhelmed insurance appraiser with the inventory, Addie discovers an 1887 magazine containing Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, which she estimates to be worth over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

But when Addie later finds the appraiser dead in the estate's private library, with the door bolted from the inside, and the priceless edition missing, it's a mystery worthy of the Great Detective himself. She's certain the death and the robbery are connected--but who, other than a ghost who can walk through walls, could have gotten in to do the deed? It's up to Addie to find the key to the crime--before she's the next one cornered by a killer

 

My thoughts

Would Recommend it? Yes

Would I read more of the series? Yes

Would I read more by this author? Yes

First time I read anything by this author , and I'm glad I picked this up,what could be be better then a bookstore own who gets in pulled into a murder case. Other thing I liked about this book was how the author used old book titles in her story as well as a creepy old house that had a spooky history to it as well. The only thing that I didn't really enjoy about the story was the love  triangles that was going on and how Marc treated Addie , as well as  the treatment that she got from the friend of his, and how one moment he was saying he was a friend and the next wasn't even listing to her or believing her at all. But thank goodness that she had Simon, because he was there for when she needed someone, other then at I found this story to be well-written, delightful, and thoroughly entertaining reading and at times I was smiling because of Simon and Addie, so much so that I want to read more of the series ans see what happens next. With that sais I want to thank NetGalley for letting me read and review it .

The Midnight Abduction

 

 

 

 

About Nichole Severn: Nichole Severn writes romantic suspense with strong heroines, heroes who dare

challenge them, and a hell of a lot of guns. When she’s not writing, she’s injuring herself running and

practicing yoga.

 

 

Midnight Abduction by Nichole Severn (on-sale May 19, 2020)

Book description: For the Tactical Crime Division, no case is left cold. When Benning Reeves’s twins are

kidnapped, the frantic father knows who can help: the Tactical Crime Division and Ana Ramirez. Even

though Ana once shattered Benning’s heart, the special agent is the only one he can trust. But Ana is still

tormented by the unresolved case that brought them together years before—a case somehow

entangled with Benning’s children. It’s up to the TCD and Ana to discover why…before it’s too late.

About Nichole Severn: Nichole Severn writes romantic suspense with strong heroines, heroes who dare

challenge them, and a hell of a lot of guns. When she’s not writing, she’s injuring herself running and

practicing yoga.

Purchase links:

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Character:Ana Sofia Ramirez

Kidnapping & Ransom Specialist

 

 

Excerpt, Midnight Abduction by Nichole Severn

Perfect for fans of Criminal Minds and Blacklist...
Uncover the lives and loves of the FBI elite as they take on the toughest assignments. This is a new four-book miniseries featuring an ensemble cast of characters spread across 4 books, featuring 4 urgent cases, with one stellar team of crime solving experts.
The Tactical Crime Division—TCD—is a specialized unit of the FBI. Because of the growing concerns and need for ever increasing response time to criminal events, the FBI created a specialized tech and tactical team combing specialists from several active divisions that include: weapons, crime scene investigation, protection, negotiation and IT.
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
Ana Sofia Ramirez—She’s out for redemption. Recruited by the Tactical Crime Division’s director from the Bureau’s missing-persons’ division after her last case ended with a dead victim, she’s more determined than ever to recover Benning Reeves’s son.
Benning Reeves—Single father and small-town building inspector who’s come across evidence of a murder hidden on one of his construction sites; the cost of discovery has led to the kidnapping of his six-year-old twins.
Olivia and Owen Reeves—Benning’s six-year-old twins.
Evan Duran—Tactical Crime Division’s hostage negotiator, who’s fully invested in recovering Benning Reeves’s son due to his own dark past of losing his sister as a child.
JC Cantrell—Tactical Crime Division’s tactical-operations specialist, who’s good at planting bugs, leading surveillance ops or coming up with a ruse to distract someone.
***
“Well, maybe I can give her a tour of TCD head-quarters in Knoxville one day. You know, give her a chance to see what federal agents really do on the job.” Ana stilled, the weight of her attention pressurizing the air in his chest, but he didn’t miss the assumption there would be a one day for them. That she wouldn’t disappear from their lives after Owen came home, and his blood pressure spiked. She cleared her throat as though she’d caught herself making promises she might not be able to keep. Just as she had with Samantha Perry’s family. “You must be proud. She’s going to make a hell of an agent one day.”
“That’s her plan, and probably why she opened up to you the way she did. I can tell she admires you, what you do.” Benning straightened, echoes of their earlier conversation replaying in his head on a nonstop loop. He tossed the paper towel he’d used to clean his foot in the trash beside the island. “So do I, to be honest. The work you and your team do saves lives. I know I already said thank you, but I meant it.”
“Like I said, you don’t have to thank me.” She dropped that mesmerizing gaze to the counter, sweeping the spread of flour into the sink set into the island with one hand, and swiped beneath her nose with the other. Touching her face had always been a nervous habit. “All part of the job.”
“Is that what this is for you, Ana? Just another job? Because this case is definitely a lot more personal to me.” Benning maneuvered around the counter, his bare chest nearly pressed against the exposed skin of her arm. He set his hand over hers on the granite, her quick gasp searing through him. Her warmth penetrated past skin and muscle, deep into his bones. “After what you told me about the Samantha Perry case, I realize now how hard it must’ve been for you to come back here, and you’re standing there as if none of it affects you. But is that how you really feel?”
He wanted—no, needed—to know. Was this going to play out exactly as it had between them the last time? Had he made a mistake requesting her to work this case?
Her mouth parted. “I…”
Skimming his fingers along the back of her hand, he trailed a path up her arm to her jaw, and all of his thoughts burned away. There was only the two of them. The softness of her flawless skin and hardness in her invisible guard. After everything that’d happened, after everything they’d already been through in the short span of time she’d walked back into his life, he’d struggled to keep the uncertainty, the rage, the fear, at bay so he could stay strong for Olivia. To prove that he could protect her from any threat, be the father she and her brother deserved. But Ana…stripped him of all of that. With her, Benning felt raw, exposed, bare. She was real. She was here. Not a memory—a fantasy—anymore, and it took every-thing inside him to pull himself away from her. “You had some cookie dough on your chin.”
She’d left because she believed her emotions clouded her judgment on the Samantha Perry case, and he wasn’t about to complicate anything else be- tween them. Not when it was his son’s life at risk this time. Ana turned her gaze up to his, a small tremor crossing her shoulders, and an invisible anchor set-tled inside his chest in the dark, watery landscape of this case. No matter what happened, Ana would bring his son home alive. He had to believe that. He had to believe in her. Otherwise, he’d have nothing left. “Thanks.”
A soft trill broke the silence spreading between them, but she didn’t move.
“I think your phone is ringing.” He cleared his throat, trying to drown the surge of awareness burning through him, and stepped away. It was for the best. Because anything that happened between them would only take away from their focus on finding his son, and that wasn’t a risk he was willing to take.
***

 My thoughts

Would I recommended it? Yes 

Would I read more of this series? Yes, in fact I have the last book to read 

Would I read more by this author? Yes

Once again a great win for this series and not once has it let me down, it has since book one reached out and grabbed me and had me hooked from the very first page to the last page. Will be said to see this series ends especially since I  have the last book to read and review. And each book has dealt  with a hard topic that very much hits what happening in the real world today, book one deals with a take over at a school, book 2 deals with someone harming our solders for money, this one deals with the taking of children and book 4 which I haven't read yet deals alone the lines of someone tempering with medicine.As with the other 2 books this one is fast pace and each character gets their time to shine and come out to play and you get more of their backstory as well.And like I said before this one deals with the taking of children and how long the they have to find them, why they was taken and what will happening if their not found in time. The author does an  excellent job of weaving the story from the start to finish, bring not only her characters to life but the story as well, and how she's keeps the romance and the suspense mixed really well so that one doesn't over take the other just goes to show how well of an author she is. With that said I want to thank the publisher as well as NetGalley a big thanks for letting me read and review this book as well as helping me find a new author I can't wait to read more of.

 

Barbs Bookoploy 2020 up Date

The League of Wives:

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Title: 

The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home

 

Author: Heath Hardge Lee

 

Genre: Nonfiction

 

Pages:325

 

Raring:5 

The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.

On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton.

Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves “feminists,” but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom—and to account for missing military men—by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands.

 

My thoughts

Would I recommended it? Yes

Would I read more by this author? yes

Wow this is why I love reading nonfiction so much because it brings to life the history that we never hear about while we were in school because while I do remember hearing and talking about Vietnam but never have I heard anything about these brave women who came together to help bring their husbands home. As I was reading it all I can think  of was how brave they were and that they deserved their story to be told and the author did an amazing job bring their lives as well as this part of our history to life. The hard ships they went though trying to found out what was going, as well as  trying  to get someone or anyone to listen shows just how strong they was and had to have been. And the way they was treated by our government was just wrong, like they couldn't even get their husbands pay to pay bills, get food or any of that stuff,and was told to not even talk about their husbands out side their families .They had no support from the government just themselves and each other, until one man came forward to help them. And even then it could mean death for their husbands but what else could they do. But this story is't just about them, its all so about the POWs and what they went though as well and how they was treated from been beaten , to tortured to be starved , to the point that the captors even tried to make them betray what they believed in. And right about now your probably asking what good is a story like this because it won't or can't change anything , and here's where I would said " its a story of heroes who fought bravely in Vietnam, were captured and cruelly tortured while held prisoner.
It's also the story of heroes who fought bravely and unceasingly to bring them home.Its a story that needs to be so we can never forget and its a story that shows us just how strong we can be when others say we can't do anything. So with that I want to thank NetGalley for letting me read and review it.

May Reads ( fingers cross this works)

Its time for May's wrap 

Total books read so far for 2020:180

Total books for May:37

NetGalley off my NetGalley TBR :26

Re reads: 3

DNF : 1

Library:6

Kindle:4

Physical book: 1 (read it half and half as a NetGalley ARC)

audio book:1

Buddy reads : 2

 

Book Titles read and ratings:

 
 
Book DNF:Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw, #1) by Peter Swanson ( DNF it af 59 pages in )
 
Favorites for May: The Immortal City (The Magicians of Venice, #1) by Amy KuivalainenThe Court of Miracles (Court of Miracles, #1) by Kester GrantSecrets of a Serial Killer by Rosie WalkerBehind the Red Door by Megan CollinsThe Last Wife by Nicola Marsh

Hope this works , My June TBR

 

 

sorry guys

Sorry guys but there might not be a post from me today, just tried 4 times to post my May reads and every time I posted it only half of it showed up the rest of it was cut off

Books Read in May 2020

Its time for May's wrap 

Total books read so far for 2020:180

Total books for May:37

NetGalley off my NetGalley TBR :26

Re reads: 3

DNF : 1

Library:6

Kindle:4

Physical book: 1 (read it half and half as a NetGalley ARC)

audio book:1

Buddy reads : 2

 

Book Titles read and ratings:

NetGalley
Sister Dear⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Secrets of Bones⭐⭐⭐⭐
Red Sky Over Hawaii⭐⭐⭐⭐
Midnight Abduction⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Wolf Rebel⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
American Gods⭐⭐⭐⭐
Behind the Red Door⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Last Wife⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Darling Rose Gold⭐⭐⭐⭐
House of Shadows⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Beautiful
More than Neighbors⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Puppy Love⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
In Her Shadow⭐⭐⭐⭐
Secrets of a Serial Killer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Sheikh's Unexpected Wife⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Broken Girls-reread ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Court of Miracles ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Smitten by the Brit⭐⭐⭐⭐
A Cowboy for Keeps⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Immortal City⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Alamo Bride⭐⭐
Dead of Winter⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Lying Room
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War⭐⭐⭐⭐


Mid Year 2020 Wrap Up

All the books I've read from Jan- to May

The God Game by Danny Tobey Mermaid Inn by Jenny Holiday An Inconvenient Duke (Lords of the Armory, #1) by Anna Harrington The Fortress by S.A. Jones Burma The Forgotten War by Jon Latimer The Six by Luca Veste In Search of Truth (Deadly Force #3) by Sharon Wray Catacombs (Faye Longchamp #12) by Mary Anna Evans Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2) by Heather Morris Glow Book I, Potency by Aubrey Hadley 999 The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam Unforgiven (Loveless, Texas #2) by Jay Crownover Calling on Quinn (The Blackhart Brothers, #1) by Blue Saffire Tilling the Truth (A Garden Squad Mystery #2) by Julia Henry Beautiful Liars by Isabel Ashdown Legion of Fire (Luke Jensen Bounty Hunter, #6) by William W. Johnstone The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda The Complete Language of Flowers A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz The Dilemma by B.A. Paris Death at Hungerford Stairs (Charles Dickens Investigations #2) by J.C. Briggs Snowball by Gregory Bastianelli Never-Contented Things by Sarah PorterNew York to Dallas (In Death, #33) by J.D. Robb Honor Among Thieves (The Honors, #1) by Rachel Caine Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton Rogue Heroes The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War by Ben Macintyre Hyper by John A. Autero The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The Outsider by Stephen King Savage Sam (Old Yeller, #2) by Fred Gipson Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly Shadow Born (Shadows of Salem, #1) by Jasmine Walt Hindsight (Kendra Michaels, #7) by Iris Johansen The Mysterious Island (Extraordinary Voyages, #12) by Jules Verne Slave for Two (Soul Match, #1) by Morticia Knight R. I. P. Van Winkle Part I by Joseph Coley Reversion by Amy RogersThe Wives by Tarryn Fisher The Last Odyssey (Sigma Force, #15) by James Rollins American Sherlock Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson Mageborn by Jessica ThorneThe Scent of Murder (Jazz Ramsey, #1) by Kylie Logan Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1) by Rachel Caine Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) by Sarah J. Maas Some Choose Darkness (Rory Moore/Lane Phillips, #1) by Charlie Donlea The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Bears Behaving Badly by MaryJanice Davidson Witness Protection Widow (Winchester, Tennessee #5) by Debra Webb The Other People by C.J. Tudor First Strike (The Kurgan War, #1) by Richard Turner Paris Never Leaves You by Ellen Feldman The Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain by Geoffrey Pimm The Family Next Door by Fiona Cummins Spells & Death (Paranormal MI5, #1) by Rachel Medhurst Three Widows and a Corpse (A Food Blogger Mystery Book 3) by Debra Sennefelder The Girls in the Garden by Lisa Jewell The Heart of a Woman The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown Just Watch Me by Jeff Lindsay The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Doctor Dolittle, #1) by Hugh Lofting Fragmented Loyalty (HORNET Class Alpha, #1) by Tonya Burrows Dread Nation (Dread Nation, #1) by Justina Ireland The Backstabbers (Red Ryan #2) by William W. Johnstone 101 Great American Poems by The American Poetry and Literacy Project Britain's Unsolved Murders by Kevin Turton Before He Vanished by Debra Webb The Time Machine by H.G. Wells The Empires of Luxor City by Sasha Hope Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson Before He Vanished by Debra Webb The Magestaff (The Seven Kingdoms, #1) by Cordelia Castel Desire by Amanda Quick Hers to Tame (NOLA Knights, #2) by Rhenna Morgan Socrates and the Sentinel A John Tesh Novel by Thomas Fay Ten Days Gone (A.L. McKittridge #1) by Beverly Long Curious Minds (Knight and Moon, #1) by Janet Evanovich Secrets in Deep Water by Richard Smith Into the Dark (Alexis Carew #1) by J.A. Sutherland The Missing Ones (Hester Thursby Mystery #2) by Edwin Hill Things in Jars by Jess Kidd