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“Would you like to hear a story?”
The man couldn’t help himself.
His captor was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Her
powerful eyes held his attention and made him forget that she had him
confined in a basement; his hands and feet bound with duct tape. His
heart raced as he meekly nodded his head ‘yes’ to the question.
After getting past the terror and discomfort, he
reasoned that there was nothing to worry about. He would be missed.
He had loved ones who would call the police. All he had to do was
wait. Letting this woman tell him a story was as good a stall as any.
The mysterious woman weaved a tale of betrayed love and
unwanted, unnatural experiments placed upon her. Of a loving wife,
working on a top secret government program. Of a husband searching
for love in all the wrong places. The prisoner couldn’t believe what
he was being told. A descent into insanity, fueled by a jealous rage,
ended with using the tools of science for torture and revenge.
With every blink of her lovely eyes, licking of her full lips, and heaving
of her perfect breasts, the captor entertained a story most bizarre.
Of a woman bent on teaching her cheating husband a lesson.
DONALD ALLEN KIRCH lives in The United States of America. He is an avid
reader of history, Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, the paranormal, and is
a “hardcore” Doctor Who fan. After spending two weekends in
the famous “Sallie House,” a “haunted house” in
Atchison, Kansas, he is one of the only authors of his craft who can
claim to have been attacked by a ghost!
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Hello. Welcome to another edition of Sherry’s Shelves. Well…Mardi Gras is over. Some of the family from Connecticut came down for Spring Break. I was happy Mardi Gras was still going on and we made it to New Orleans for a day of parades. We got pelted with beads…and if you know Mardi Gras…there are never enough beads. The weather started out a bit rainy but mild. Unfortunately, it changed to freezing colod for a couple of nights,but came back mild for their last day…at Pensacola Beach. I hope they enjoyed their time here as much as we enjoyed having the.
We have chosen our spot, scored some loot and are waiting for the next parade to arrive.
My sister in law and niece, Sharon and Shelby look like they are having a great time. Have to remember to duck when those bags of beads are flying.
Here’s just some of the treasure we scored!
We had lunch at Peg Leg Pete’s on Pensacola Beach.
And we always take our visitors to meet the resident aliens.
The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The
only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in
your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs
you and post it.
Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or so
of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the
sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.
Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.
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I got a copy of A Map of the Dark by Karen Ellis from Net Galley, thought I have been trying hard to stay away from it until I have read and reviewed all the books I am behind. Needless to say, when I saw Karen’s Searcher series, I couldn’t resist. Let’s take a look at the first in the series A Map of the Dark.
She likes the feel of the ground underfoot and so so she toes off her sneakers and carries them, swinging loosely from her fingertips. But after a couple of minutes she steps on something sharp and changes her mind. She drops her book bag i a pool of shifting shadows. Sits on it. Ties her left sneaker, then plants that foot on the ground and cantilevers over a bent knee to tie the other one. She feels tired. tired from all the things on her agenda this week. All the shoolwork piling up. Yawning, she stands and continues walking slowly, vaguely, in the direction of her high school.
MY 56
She was on her way to school. She missed the bus. She was walking. And then. And then.
(56% on Kindle)
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A girl, missing A woman, searching A killer, planning…
FBI Agent Elsa Myers finds missing people. She knows how it feels to be lost…
Though
her father lies dying in a hospital north of New York City, Elsa cannot
refuse a call for help. A teenage girl has gone missing from Forest
Hills, Queens, and during the critical first hours of the case, a series
of false leads hides the fact that she did not go willingly.
With
each passing hour, as the hunt for Ruby deepens into a search for a man
who may have been killing for years, the case starts to get underneath
Elsa’s skin. Everything she has buried – her fraught relationship with
her sister and niece, her self-destructive past, her mother’s death –
threatens to resurface, with devastating consequences.
In order to save the missing girl, she may have to lose herself…and return to the darkness she’s been hiding from for years.
Beach Blanket Homicide
(Whispering Bay Mystery)
by Maria Geraci
About the Book
Beach Blanket Homicide (Whispering Bay Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Independently Published (November 27, 2018) Paperback: 268 pages ISBN-10: 1790435722 ISBN-13: 978-1790435722 Digital ASIN: B07K6WXBG8
The first book in a fun, quirky chick-lit mystery series featuring Lucy McGuffin, world’s best muffin maker and amateur sleuth.
Everyone agrees that Lucy McGuffin bakes
the best muffins in Whispering Bay, but she’s got another talent, one
that she’s tried her whole life to hide. Lucy can always tell when a
person is lying or telling the truth. Being a human lie detector isn’t
all it’s cracked up to be. Especially when you don’t really want the
answer to the universal question: Does this dress make my butt look too
big?
When Lucy is hired to cater the grand
opening celebration of the city’s new community center, she stumbles
across the dead body of Abby Delgado, a prominent member of the Sunshine
Ghost Society. Lucy’s brother, Father Sebastian, a local priest, is the
last person to have seen Abby alive. Convinced he’ll be breaking a
confidence, Sebastian refuses to cooperate with the police, forcing Lucy
to put her skills to the test to save her brother’s good name.
Enter the town’s new hotshot deputy,
Travis Fontaine. Travis doesn’t want an amateur like Lucy snooping
around his turf, so he offers her a deal. He’ll stay out of her kitchen
if she’ll stay away from his crime scene. But Lucy isn’t about to let
her brother’s fate rest in the hands of an arrogant cop. Good thing she
has her best friend Will and her new little rescue dog, Paco, to back
her up, because its up to Lucy to figure out what everyone in the quaint
little beachside town is hiding.
About the Author
Author Maria Geraci. (Photo by Chris Kridler/ChrisKridler.com)
Maria Geraci writes quirky, fun, romantic women’s
fiction and cozy mysteries. She’s a two time RITA® Finalist, as well as a
finalist in the National Readers’ Choice Awards and Romantic Times’
American Title Contest. She lives in central Florida and is always on
the lookout for the perfect key lime pie recipe (but not the kind they
served on Dexter).
Broken Bone China
(A Tea Shop Mystery) by Laura Childs
I appreciate Laura Childs
wonderful descriptions of the Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston, the beautiful
antiques, books, Haley’s tasty dishes and the entrancing teas (I can
just imagine how they would smell). ~The Avid Reader
About the Book
Broken Bone China (A Tea Shop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 20th in Series Berkley (March 5, 2019) Hardcover: 336 pages ISBN-10: 0451489632 ISBN-13: 978-0451489630 Digital ASIN: B07DMZPLWY
Theodosia Browning serves
tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and
treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling
author Laura Childs.
It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia
and Drayton are catering a formal tea at a hot-air balloon rally. The
view aloft is not only stunning, they are also surrounded by a dozen
other colorful hot-air balloons. But as the sky turns gray and the
clouds start to boil up, a strange object zooms out of nowhere. It is a
drone, and it appears to be buzzing around the balloons, checking them
out.
As Theodosia and Drayton watch, the
drone, hovering like some angry, mechanized insect, deliberately crashes
into the balloon next to them. An enormous, fiery explosion erupts, and
everyone watches in horror as the balloon plummets to the earth,
killing all three of its passengers.
Sirens scream, first responders arrive,
and Theodosia is interviewed by the police. During the interview she
learns that one of the downed occupants was Don Kingsley, the CEO of a
local software company, SyncSoft. Not only do the police suspect
Kingsley as the primary target, they learn that he possessed a rare
Revolutionary War Union Jack flag that several people were rabidly
bidding on.
Intrigued, Theodosia begins her own
investigation. Was it the CEO’s soon-to-be ex-wife, who is restoring an
enormous mansion at no expense? The CEO’s personal assistant, who also
functioned as curator of his prized collection of Americana? Two rival
antiques’ dealers known for dirty dealing? Or was the killer the fiancée
of one of Theodosia’s dear friends, who turns out to be an employee—and
whistle-blower—at SyncSoft?
INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES AND TEA TIME TIPS!
About the Author
Laura Childs is the New York Times bestselling author of the Tea Shop Mysteries, Scrapbook Mysteries, and Cackleberry Club Mysteries.
In her previous life she was CEO/Creative Director of her own marketing
firm and authored several screenplays. She is married to a professor of
Chinese art history, loves to travel, rides horses, enjoys fundraising
for various non-profits, and has two Chinese Shar-Pei dogs.
Laura specializes in cozy mysteries that have the pace of a thriller (a thrillzy!) Her three series are:
The Tea Shop Mysteries –
set in the historic district of Charleston and featuring Theodosia
Browning, owner of the Indigo Tea Shop. Theodosia is a savvy
entrepreneur, and pet mom to service dog Earl Grey. She’s also an
intelligent, focused amateur sleuth who doesn’t rely on coincidences or
inept police work to solve crimes. This charming series is highly
atmospheric and rife with the history and mystery that is Charleston.
The Scrapbooking Mysteries –
a slightly edgier series that take place in New Orleans. The main
character, Carmela, owns Memory Mine scrapbooking shop in the French
Quarter and is forever getting into trouble with her friend, Ava, who
owns the Juju Voodoo shop. New Orleans’ spooky above-ground cemeteries,
jazz clubs, bayous, and Mardi Gras madness make their presence known
here!
The Cackleberry Club Mysteries –
set in Kindred, a fictional town in the Midwest. In a rehabbed Spur
station, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra, three semi-desperate, forty-plus
women have launched the Cackleberry Club. Eggs are the morning specialty
here and this cozy cafe even offers a book nook and yarn shop. Business
is good but murder could lead to the cafe’s undoing! This series offers
recipes, knitting, cake decorating, and a dash of spirituality.
Their brief heated meeting one fateful night had singed itself into their
minds. Not knowing of the other’s identity, but unable to forget, had
sealed their fate. The fire smoldered quietly in each of them as they
tried to move on with their lives.
Eric Stiles was in the middle of chaos, searching for a killer.
Hunted by an obsessed psychopath, Rebecca Gailen was trying to be
strong.
The world stopped for a moment as they looked up and saw the other
standing just feet away.
His heart lurched, her armor shattered and the world started again as
Eric’s brother, Charlie, appeared to take her hand.
Family loyalty isn’t a choice. When Rebecca’s stalker rages out of control,
Eric’s decision haunts him and he struggles to stay away. Can he
remain loyal to his brother, even if it means abandoning Rebecca when
she may need him the most?
She had become his prey. His plaything. The one he desired the most, but
someone wanted her more.
Her resilience fading, Rebecca fights to remain strong against the man
trying to destroy her mind and her life. Without the solace of Eric’s
arms, Rebecca’s will to recover from the relentless blows wanes as
she begins to break.
Eric, forced to face his own choices, races to end the nightmare before the
woman he loves is completely torn apart.
Just when they think the worst is over, the game and the stakes change.
Eric Stiles has everything to lose and no matter how hard he fights he can
feel his life slipping away.
Rebecca Gailen thinks that the love of her life is dead and only the vigor of
revenge keeps her fighting to survive.
When a secret reveals more than anyone expected, it changes Eric and
Rebecca’s lives forever. The devastating truth puts the couple at
odds. Can they overcome their clashing conclusions and learn to trust
each other again? Or will they let it rip them apart?
Amy Romine has always wanted to be one of the good guys. From playing
Charlie’s Angels in the backyard of her Macungie, PA home as a child
to the pages of her unending projects, Amy has always dreamed of
adventure and romance. Her need to make the characters truly deserve
their happiness takes us on many a twisted journey. From serial
killers to demons, Amy holds nothing back in the name of true
enduring love.
A mother of three, Amy has spent the past
sixteen years working in Operations for Ricoh America’s Corporation.
She is an avid movie fan and enjoys books, television, theater, her
dog Pip and all things romance.
Britney King loves to deliver a twisted, psychological thriller that makes it almost impossible to put down. Her is another fantastic addition to my reading list and I can hardly wait for more.
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Joe Klaus
With an opening like that, I grit my teeth and clench my hands tightly around my ereader, anticipating another fabulous psychological thriller from Britney King…and I was not disappointed.
When I read the Prologue, I thought, “I wonder what she is setting me up for.”
Britney King is very creative when it comes to her villains. Many times she has me rooting for them, making me love them and wanting things to work out for them.
Be careful thinking the grass is greener on the other side. It may be infested with evil.
Sadie…she is finding out that once you are in, you are never out. Now, how can I turn my back on her. I am bopping along, at a steady pace, watching her be manipulated, twisted, and perverted into keeping some nefarious secrets.
Secrets, betrayal…how can she live like that?
Britney King has a way of taking a normal neighborhood and with her casual air creates a location of danger and death. Somehow her imagination comes up with way of surprising me, jerking me out of an I know this attitude.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Her by Britney King.
4 Star
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“After four, I quit counting. What’s the point if you know it isn’t going to stop?”
Sadie is jealous. Why wouldn’t she be? Her life is falling apart. Meanwhile, her new neighbor is everything she is not.
Ann
is perfect—the kind of woman everyone loves to hate—and a best friend
to die for. She hosts over-the-top dinner parties, takes parenting to an
entirely different level, and makes ambition look sexy as hell.
Sadie
learns quick: the best way to cure jealousy is to befriend it. She also
learns there’s more to her new friend than meets the eye. She’s
patient, she’s kind, and possibly a serial killer.
It isn’t
until Ann’s proclivities hit a little too close to home that Sadie has
to ask herself how much she’s willing to overlook in the name of getting
what she wants.
Exquisitely paced, Her is an unnerving and electrifying psychological thriller about jealousy, passion, and the dangerous places desire can take you. Full of enough tension and twists to make even the most seasoned suspense reader break out in a cold sweat, it keeps you guessing until the very last page.
ABOUT BRITNEY KING
Britney
King writes psychological, domestic, and romantic thrillers set in
suburbia. She is currently writing three series and several standalone
novels.
The Bedrock series (psychological/domestic/romantic thriller)
features an unlikely heroine who should have known better. Turns out,
she didn’t. Thus she finds herself tangled in a messy, dangerous,
forbidden love story and face-to-face with a madman hell-bent on
revenge. The series has been compared to Fatal Attraction, Single White
Female, and Basic Instinct.
The Water Trilogy (psychological/domestic/romantic thriller) follows
the shady love story of an unconventional married couple– he’s an
assassin–she kills for fun. It has been compared to a crazier version of
Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Also, the hit series Dexter.
Around The Bend, is a heart-pounding standalone (romantic
suspense/domestic/psychological thriller), which traces the journey of a
well-to-do suburban housewife, and her life as it unravels, thanks to
the secrets she keeps. If she were the only one with things she wanted
to keep hidden, then maybe it wouldn’t have turned out so bad. But she
wasn’t.
The With You series (romantic suspense/contemporary romance) is a
coming of age, friends to lovers, second chance (plus a few) love story
about unlikely friends who travel the world; trying to find themselves,
together and apart. It has been compared to Love, Rosie.
Britney lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, children, two dogs, one ridiculous cat, and a partridge in a pear tree.
She enjoys hearing from readers and would love it if you would
connect with her at britneyking.com or the plethora of social media
accounts she posses.
To receive an email whenever the author releases a new title, sign up for the VIP newsletter at britneyking.com/subscribe-to-new-rele… copy and paste into your browser).
To get more– grab two books for free, by subscribing to her mailing list at britneyking.com or just copy and paste bit.ly/britneykingweb into your browser.
Her characters may be hard to pin down, but she’s not. She loves talking to readers, so feel free to email her at britney@britneyking.com—she does her best to respond to everyone.
I am so excited to have you here today, Ken. I have read books from you that have dealt with cookies, zombies, personal success, magic, fantasy and love. I have enjoyed each and every one. You are here to share your thoughts about your Heaven series. So…let’s begin.
Grief is Funny
(Emotional Honesty in Heaven Denied)
So,
I’m sitting in a radio-show studio, just before going on the air – this
was a couple of years ago – and one of the hosts asks me a question I’d
been hearing a lot that still took me by surprise. Were we going to see
a sequel to Heaven Enough?
I
say the question took me by surprise because, ever since the day I put
pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) to write my first novel, I always
had sequels in mind. Most of my brainstorming for any novel includes
some strategizing as to where I take that story next.
But Heaven Enough
was a different kind of novel for me. The idea sprang forth fully
self-contained. For a novel about a man who had lost his wife to later
find love on the Pacific Crest Trail; what more was there? I had even
taken my wife on a drive through Warner Springs, telling her about the
characters and pointing out where they would go, finishing with a
definite conclusion – Heaven Enough would be a stand-alone story.
As
so often is the case, life had other plans. The story of Matt Murphy
and Heather Brooker and this unlikely pairing of one broken man who
insisted he wasn’t with one indominable woman who bore a tragic secret
caught on rather unexpectedly. Here and there, readers would inquire
after a sequel. Until the day came when I was sitting in that studio and
I realized that my readers were right: Heaven Enough needed a sequel.
…
As it turned out, my publisher wasn’t interested. Too much time had
passed since the first book’s release, I was told. I’d be smart to move
on.
But
if I was smart, I wouldn’t be a novelist. I had spent too much time
thinking about a sequel to let it go – not just one but two! My
publisher, Limitless, while not interested in the sequels, released me
from my contract so that I could self-publish all of the Heaven novels. All that was left was to write them.
The
smart move would be to follow that sad tale of Heather and Matt with a
more upbeat chapter. Everyone was asking about Neal and Babette, the
flamboyant cross-dresser who appeared towards the end of the first
novel. Perhaps, some suggested, I focus more on them.
While
I knew that might make for a more marketable title, I also knew Matt
wasn’t finished with Heather. Babette and Neal will have their moment,
of this you can be sure, but I couldn’t move on until Matt could move
on. Only… how could Matt move on? Heather’s story was wrapped in a tight
bow. Where could Matt turn to share his awful grief?
In Heaven Enough,
I made it clear that Heather was not only alone in the world, she’d
also never married and was still a virgin. That is ironclad. But that
doesn’t mean she didn’t have a life, that she didn’t love. And, if the
Heaven novels are about anything, they are about love and opening
ourselves up to love. And, so, I planted an imaginary photograph on an
imaginary Internet for Babette to find, a photograph of a much younger
Heather with a much younger man posing outside of a chapel in Las Vegas.
That
was all Matt would need. I knew Babette wouldn’t be able to keep his
mouth shut, especially with a little help from Neal and Babs, Matt’s
mother. Once he knew some strand of Heather’s life remained out there,
somewhere, Matt would step onto the pages of a new novel, a more
complicated novel than Heaven Enough. Part Bromance, part romantic
comedy, part road trip, the new novel would touch on missed
opportunities and regrets, love in all of its forms and coming to terms
with who you are after who you are is almost unrecognizable.
That novel, I titled Heaven Denied.
Heaven Denied is now available in ebook and paperback, with an audiobook on its way. You can also pick up Heaven Enough in ebook, paperback, and audiobook. Look for the third novel in this series, Heaven For Now, coming late this year.
Congratulations, Ken, for having written a love story that has stuck with me, making me look inside myself, not just along for the ride. I am happy we will have a third book, and I hope you will put me at the top of list when it becomes available for review.
Tim and Adelaide Smithfield are haunted by memories of loss too raw to
forget, and too painful to remember. Their 11-year-old daughter,
Michaela, has her own set of sensory processing challenges, not to
mention an overwhelming sense of guilt that she might be at the root
of her parents’ problems.
The sprawling ranch house on the outskirts of the quaint West Texas town
of Big Spring promises a fresh start for a young family on the verge
of collapse.
But the house is haunted by memories of its own… and a guilt that West
Texas’ famed thunderstorms can’t wash away.
Sara is a mother of four, animal lover and advocate, and conservationist.
Little House on the Prairie, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, and Lonesome
Dove are among her favorite shows/movies and books. Sara holds her
B.A. in History and is the author of the historical romance series,
An Everlasting Heart, from 5 Prince Publishing and recently debuted
into the children’s book realm with Chunky Sugars (5 Prince Kids),
written for her own chunky baby.
