Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Rival's Break, by Carla Neggers {ends 9/3}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley Emma noticed an attractive brown mushroom under the pine tree, not far from where she stood. She had no idea what it was. “What about mushrooms that aren’t deadly but still can make you sick?” Sister Cecilia hopped off the pine root and lifted...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew, by Hendrika de Vries {ends 8/29}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley The room grew silent, and I could barely breathe as she answered him: “But don’t you understand that is exactly why I did it,” and pointing her finger at his chest as if in reprimand, she added, “Don’t you realize that not one of our children is...

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Quick Pick book review: The Two Lila Bennetts, by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

Opening lines: (Prologue) Wake up! Wake the hell up! The sound of my own voice shakes me out of my deep slumber, and my stomach lurches. I've lost track of time. Reason I picked up the book: I've read books by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke before, and enjoyed them. And...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: The Birthday Girl, by Melissa de la Cruz {ends 8/25}

October 19 The Present 5:00 PM Ellie de Florent-Stinson had made a point of telling everyone she knew that she'd bought the house in Palm Springs for her birthday, as a gift to self. Renting a Palm Springs house for a celebration was practically a rite of passage among a...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: A Fist or a Heart, by Kristín Eiríksdóttir {ends 8/25}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley He sat next to me one morning, and we started chatting. He said he’d bought a little house in Ko Samui without having ever laid eyes on it. This was the first time he’d been to Thailand, but he’d decided he was never going to leave. Why Thailand?...

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Off the Grid, by Robert McCaw {ends 8/21}

Guest review by: Becki Bayley The crime-scene team searched the Campbells’ remote artist’s studio. They collected DNA samples from bed linens, a woman’s hairbrush, Q-tips, cosmetic swabs, and a man’s comb. Dozens of fingerprints throughout the house belonged to two people,...

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Book Review: Say You Still Love Me, by K.A. Tucker

My intelligent, mature self keeps telling me to let it go. That's what we had thirteen years ago. We were teenagers then. Stupid kids, really. We're adults now, and complete strangers. If Kyle wants to keep it that way ... fine. Except he was the first boy I ever loved—my...

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