Flare Jay Hogan (Style Series, #1) Publication date: April 21st 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance
My own fashion label. The shiny new sign above the door means everything. My dream. My life. Worth every gruelling hour I’ve spent making it happen. Nothing can stop me now. Not the fear. Not the nightmares. Not my sad excuse for a love life. And certainly not Beckett Northcott, the sexy English professor who wouldn’t know a fitted shirt if it slapped him in the face and who has flannel down to an art form.
I don’t date for a very good reason, and yet Beck makes me want to break every damn one of my rules. But with my debut at Fashion Week looming, my business in trouble, and Beckett Northcott peeling open my terrified heart to a future I’ve never imagined, the threads of my carefully woven life are unravelling at the seams.
I could walk away. Or I could take a chance that Beck and I might just have what it takes to fashion a new life, together. A fresh design from a new cloth.
Jay is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Gay Romance and her book Off Balance was the 2021 New Zealand Romance Book of the Year.
She is a New Zealand author writing mm romance and romantic suspense, primarily set in New Zealand. She writes character driven romances with lots of humour, a good dose of reality and a splash of angst. She’s travelled extensively, lived in many countries, and in a past life she was a critical care nurse, nurse educator and counsellor. Jay is owned by a huge Maine Coon cat and a gorgeous Cocker Spaniel
Ten Years Gone is my second book by H P Newquist and I have to admit, it has been lingering for far too long. It is not because I didn’t enjoy it, that’s for sure!
In Kerrville, on the 21st of November, for nine years, someone is found murdered, hanging from a tree. One the tree is 1/10, 2/10, 3/10….It’s not like the police haven’t tried to solve the crimes, but there isn’t much to go on.
A reality show, looking for something interesting, decided they would come to Kerrville and find the killer before he/she can claim their tenth victim and vanish.
Then, Marcy gets wind of it. She is ex FBI with a chip on her shoulder. She has an investigation firm and pressures her ‘contacts’ to come up with a suspect…any suspect. She is a piece of work and as the story goes on, the worse she gets. She doesn’t instill any confidence in me. I would hate to be depending on her…for anything. If you read the book, you will understand why I want to reach into the Kindle and punch her lights out.
H P Newquist exposes the human frailty in Ten Years Gone. The state of mind of someone needing to right the wrong in his own way, no matter how twisted or monstrous the solution. IT doesn’t have a grotesque face, easily spotted. It can look like your neighbor, a friend, a coworker….hiding in plain sight.
Reality TV (cough, cough), a disgruntled FBI agent, a cop that never gives up, a town that struggles through ten years of terror..
There is suspense, but I wasn’t biting my nails. It was more mystery…ya know, IT’s gonna strike, ya know when, but not why, or who.
The ending…surprising…and I LOVE IT!
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Ten Years Gone by H P Newquist.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
The new thriller from award-winning author HP Newquist!
Every November for nearly a decade, a body has been found hanging from a tree outside the town of Kerrville. As the tenth year approaches, the killer leaves clues that indicate there will only be one more murder. A reality show and its celebrity host decide that this last murder could be the ratings they’ve always wanted–and they are determined to find the murderer before the police do. But the killer thinks that is a very, very bad idea.
TEN YEARS GONE is currently available free in ebook format from Newquist’s site at: newquist.net
ABOUT H P NEWQUIST
HP Newquist’s books and articles have been published all over the
world, and his writing has been translated into languages from kanji to
farsi. All told, he has written more than two dozen books and hundreds of articles, along with numerous awards and citations.
His
writing spans a vast array of interests and issues. In the late 1980s
and 1990s he wrote extensively about artificial intelligence (AI),
compiling a body of work that is arguably the most extensive coverage of
the AI business created to date.
Newquist became an editorial columnist for Computerworld, and a contributor to Newsweek, Popular Mechanics, the Financial Technology Report, and Music Technology
magazine. These led, perhaps not so naturally, to the Editor-In-Chief
position at GUITAR magazine. He contributed to a host of other music
magazines, including Billboard, Guitar Player, Guitar Shop, InTune, and Musician’s Planet.
Along
the way, he wrote two documentary films–one of which was nominated for
an Emmy Award–and created technology entries for Microsoft’s Encarta
encyclopedia, while writing architecture and travel pieces for The New
York Press.
Meanwhile, his work was cited and reviewed in the New York Times, the Economist, Variety, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and hundreds of other publications around the world. He won some awards in the process.
Newquist’s books cover the same array of topics as his magazine
articles, from brain science and space exploration to legendary
guitarists and the strangeness of the Internet. To date, he has written
over two dozen books. And he’s already committed to writing many more.
