Character Madness and Musings

Love's Deception by DC Renee  Genre: Contemporary Romance  May contain adult content For someone who wasn’t the “dating kind,” he had certainly done a bang-up job of wooing me. Dating, marriage … the whole nine yards. I’d fallen hard. I couldn’t help it. Nolan Corrington was gorgeous, charming, sweet, and he loved me with a passion I’d never felt before. It was inevitable on my end. He tried to fight his love for me. I was the first girl he ever let in because he’d vowed never to love. He didn’t want the fallout a heartbreak would create. But he said dating me, marrying me, loving me … the whole nine yards was inevitable for him too. With a love like that, there could be no room for heartbreak, right? Well, see … that’s the thing about loving someone so hard. You don’t always share everything about yourself, at least not until it’s too late … until the person is so deep inside you that you hope they won’t want to leave. That’s what I like to call love’s decept...

Children's Picture Book Publisher : AuthorHouse Rylan is five and has a mouse friend named Henry. Soon after Dad arrives home from deployment, he announces that they are moving 4,421 miles away. Come on an adventure with Rylan and his family moving from Anchorage, Alaska, through Canada to their new home in South Carolina. Will Henry go with the family, be forgotten, or get packed in a box, left behind. This book is dedicated to military families that mover thousands of miles each year. About the Author Christy Jordan Wrenn has been a published children's author since 2014. She is an Indie published author and illustrator of four books: Rylan and Burt (2014), Rylan and Henry (2015), Emma's Funny Birds (2016), Moving Again !!! With Rylan and Henry (2018), and the (second edition 2019). Currently, she is an Administrative Librarian at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, Louisiana. Christy has 40+ ye...

Lincoln by Christina Bauer (Angelbound Origins #1.5) Publication date: May 28th 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult ***Experience the events of Angelbound from Lincoln’s perspective!!!*** When it comes to fighting demons, Prince Lincoln is the greatest warrior in the history of his people, the thrax. Now Lincoln faces his hardest fight yet…and it’s not on a traditional battlefield. Lincoln is falling in love. And the girl is part demon. Between a fated dance at the Ryder mansion…a life-changing walk through a hedgerow maze…and a massive battle with none other than the King of Hell…Lincoln realizes that he wants to share his life with Myla Lewis, the part-demon girl who has captured his heart. However, an evil thrax noble—the powerful Earl of Acca—is prepared to do anything to stop Lincoln and Myla from having a future. But Lincoln won’t give up on his Myla. Ever. To fight Aldred, Lincoln works to create a different kind of marriage—an Alliance o...

A Case for the Winemaker  Ainsley McGregor Book 1  by Candace Havens  Genre: Cozy Mystery  The closer she gets to the truth, the more she finds herself drowning in trouble. It’s an exciting time in Sweet River, Texas, and the whole town's talking. Maybe, a little too much. Former English professor Ainsley McGregor has gambled everything on her new business: Bless Your Art, an artisan market where local artists sell their wares and teach classes. The bright, white space is filled to the brim with colorful art, yarn, jewelry, pet treats, antiques and even a few medieval weapons. Oh, and there are wine tastings. Everything's better with wine. Ainsley is surprised by how well things are going–right up until the moment her Great Dane finds a dead body. With her friend accused of the murder, it’s up to Ainsley to find the real killer. As the suspect list grows longer, Ainsley has her work cut out for her. The task is made more difficult by the fact her brot...

Wolf of the Baskervilles by Majanka Verstraete (Adventures of Marisol Holmes, #3) Published by: Firefly Hill Press Publication date: January 21st 2020 Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult Who is Marisol Holmes? She’s a teenager. Detective. Jaguar shifter. And don’t forget, she’s also the descendant of the great Sherlock Holmes. Our heroine had been in some pretty tight spots before, but now? She’s about to face her biggest challenge yet: a powerful shifter with a taste for blood. No one has faced down the deadly wolf of the Baskervilles and lived to tell the tale. Even so, Marisol Holmes plans to do just that. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play An Interview with Majanka Verstraete Welcome to JB’s Bookworms with Brandy Mulder. We’re excited to be showcasing The Wolf of  the Baskervilles , today. Is it a new release? Yes, it’s a new release. Please tell us a little bit about it? The Wolf...

Faerie Forged  The Magicsmith Book 3  by L.R. Braden  Genre: Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance  New world, new rules . . .  Alex is screwed. She’s due at the fae Court of Enchantment in less than twenty-four hours, but she’s not even close to being ready. Her job is hanging by a fraying thread. There’s a new vampire master in town. And several of her werewolf friends have been captured by the Paranatural Task Force. She’s their best chance for release before the full moon reveals their secret, but the Lord of Enchantment is not someone you keep waiting—even when he happens to be your grandfather. All Alex can do is call in a favor, hope to hell she can survive the plots of the fae court, and hightail it home to salvage her life. One mistake at court could change everything . . . . “Original and riveting.”—Book Likes Blog on A Drop of Magic, Book One of The Magicsmith series “Great plot. Lovable characters. Heart-pounding action.”—Lauren Davis, ...

Check out my stop on the blog tour for Smailholm by C.L. Williams! Smailholm by C.L. Williams Genre: YA Fantasy Release Date: January 28th 2020 Shh! Can you keep a secret? In wild medieval Britain thirteen-year-old Wynn Hoppringle has a big secret of the smallest kind. She has discovered a miniature village hidden close to her family home of Smailholm Tower. When tales of merciless border raiders reach the small folk, they realise they are in danger and must seek a cure to their strange predicament. Can Wynn help her tiny friends or will the scheming King quog have other ideas? Heroes it seems come in all sizes. “A spellbinding tale of adventure, magic and friendship” V.F.Sharp, author of The Forest of Arrows Purchase Links       Audible AUTHOR LINKS: Website       Instagram       Twitter       Facebook BOOK IS PUBLISHED BY TROUBADOR under its imprint MATAD...