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Baby Talk, Book I is FREE, or you can get Books I & II for $4.99

Below is the Kindle cover for Baby Talk Book III by Mike Wells. Below that is the book cover from Goodreads and the audiobook cover. Which do you like best?

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MY REVIEW

We open with Neal at the Central State Psychiatric Hospital in Midgeville, Georgia. General Sherman’s troops had camped there during the Civil War, and it has been all downhill since. He is housed with a couple hundred other criminally insane patients, BUT…

Neal knows exactly what’s going on around him, though they think he is catatonic. He is silently plotting and planning his escape. He must find Natasha and stop her.

The courts had given the baby to Susan, a nurse who had saved baby Natasha from her criminally insane father. Her mother had left her in a car with the motor running, and it didn’t end well for her either. Susan is in for a rude awakening…

I thought it was ‘funny’ that Dunwoody, Georgia was mentioned. I lived there for a short time.

Neal recruits Father Meginnis to perform an exorcism, and this is where the book took a twist I didn’t see coming…and I LOVE IT! I had to laugh.

The Baby Talk series by Mike Wells never let me go once I started reading it. Thank goodness, or should I say Mike, because I had all three books. The first is free and I highly recommend dipping your shoes into the fire.

The Baby Talk series had me thinking of Damien in the Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, Chuckie… brace yourself for the an adventure in Hell on earth. And, if Mike wanted to, the series could continue. Is Natasha still talking to you Mike? Whispering in your ear?

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Baby Talk, Book II by Mike Wells.

GOODREADS BLURB

It’s been six months since Neal Becker was convicted of the murder of his mother-in-law.

He’s been committed to the Central State Psychiatric Hospital for life.

Meanwhile, ‘poor, innocent’ Baby Natasha is in the custody of Susan Matlow, the compassionate nurse who helped ‘rescue’ her from her criminally insane father.

Neal knows what his daughter is. And he knows he only has one chance to stop her from causing more death and destruction.

He has to break out of the asylum, avoid the intensive statewide manhunt, track down Natasha, kidnap her…

…and take her to an exorcist.

ABOUT MIKE WELLS

Email me at mike (at) mikewellsbooks.com or follow me on Twitter (@MikeWellsAuthor) and get a FREE copy of one of my bestselling books. I’m an American author best known for my Lust, Money & Murder series and and written more than 25 other thriller and suspense novels. I also have taught in the Creative Writing program at Oxford. I’m known for my super fast-paced, ‘unputdownable’ books.

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All Our Secrets
Michelle Gross
Publication date: December 12th 2022
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense

“Moments define us. A split-second decision can shape your future, and you don’t realize it until it’s too late.”

Peyton Johnson:

The day I meet my boyfriend’s best friend, King; my king disappears. Everything’s fine when my gaming friend fades away like smoke because Theo consumes me entirely. Theodore Johnson becomes my husband, and our life is beautiful until it isn’t.

Theo’s gone and all that’s left of him is the unborn child in my stomach.

Silas King:
The day I meet my best friend’s girl, my heart recognizes her as my Peyton. I loved her first, but that doesn’t matter. Theo’s the only family I’d ever known and compared to him, I’m ugly and scarred. Peyton’s king disappears because Theo is everything I’m not. He will make her happy. I think that will be enough for me to let go, but it isn’t.
Then he dies, leaving her behind…

Until he comes back and I’m the only one that can see him.

Theodore Johnson:

The day I meet Peyton; my life is complete. I want to give her the world, but life doesn’t always work out that way. Now, I’m fog, slipping through her life without her knowing. Silas is the only one that knows I’m here, but it doesn’t matter. He’s going to steal her away. I can’t let him.

I loved her first, and forever will.

A romantic standalone with a ghostly twist!

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EXCERPT

I ran downstairs. The knees of my dress pants were wet, and my blouse was soaked. Tears formed when I yanked open the front door.

There Grumpy stood. The hulking, scarred man gave me a once-over: the tears, and my wet, wrinkled clothing. His nostrils flared like he was an angry gorilla or something. I glanced down and discovered that my blue bra was visible through the fabric.

“I’m sorry,” was all I could think to say. I covered my chest quickly, but it was too late. He’d seen, and now I’d made it clear I was aware of his notice.

His eyes landed on my engagement ring that time. His jaw tightened as he strode in, slipping right by me. Treating me like smoke, the nothingness I was in his presence. “Where’s the leak?”

“Master bathroom,” I murmured as I trailed after him.

His boots thudded up the hallway. I felt their vibrations on my bare feet. Even his steps were angry.

Towels were strewn all over the bathroom floor. I’d been cleaning up the mess when he knocked on the door. There was still so much water. If I didn’t get it cleaned up quickly… I didn’t want to think of the damage.

I bit a fingernail as he bent down at the sink, setting a tool bag on the floor beside him. Not knowing what to say and not being able to stand the quiet in his presence, I asked, “Do you know what you’re doing?”

He froze, tipping his head upward. “I know what I’m doing.”

“Oh, okay. Sorry,” I said again.

Silas’s dark eyes trailed over my left hand again. He averted his gaze quickly, the muscles in his arms flexing as he did something to the pipe. “Go change and get to work. I’ll fix the leak.”

“But I need to clean this mess up—”

“I got it.”

“I can’t let you clean it up.”

“I work better alone.”

“Oh, okay.” Before I could say sorry again, Silas turned and cut me down with a glare. I swore he did that to keep me from saying any more. It worked. “Thanks for helping us.”

Silas grunted.

As I turned to walk out, he said something that, at first, I thought I had misheard, so I made him repeat it.

“Are you happy?”

Three words. Three very confusing words. Three words that felt so strange and profound coming from Theodore’s best friend.

Without looking back, I stared at my engagement ring, twisting it around. I thought of Theodore and his goofy smile. I thought of King, his voice in my ear, and all our sleepless nights spent talking. And… I thought of Silas and that question.

“Yes.”

Author Bio:

Michelle is from a small town in Eastern Kentucky where possums try to blend in with the cats on the porch and bears are likely to chase your pets—this is very true, it happened with her sister’s dog. Despite the extra needed protection for your pets, she loves the mountains she calls home. She has a man and twin girls who are the light of her life and the reason she’s slightly crazy.
As a kid, she was that cousin, that friend, that sister and daughter, the talker who could spin a tale and make-believe into any little thing so it was no surprise when she found love in reading, and figured all these characters inside her head needed an outlet. They wanted to be heard, so she wrote.
The voices keep growing faster than she gets the time to write.
The stories are never going to end. That’s perfectly okay, though. We never want to stop an adventure.
She writes and loves many different genres so sign up to her mailing list to keep updated on her releases!

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