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Rachael Tamayo

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in Tyler, Texas, The United States

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http://www.rachaeltamayowrites.com/

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Thriller, Romance, Suspense

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Rachael Tamayo is the bestselling author of the award-winning Deadly Sins Series, and award-winning thriller, Crazy Love, among several other titles. Before she started her writing career, she was a highly awarded 911 emergency services dispatcher with twelve years of experience and many commendations under her belt. Upon exiting law enforcement, she’s focused her writing career on the dark, suspenseful, and psychological after beginning as a romance author. Now Rachael uses her dark thriller as a sort of self-therapy after all those years answering 911 calls and works all that she knows and was exposed to into the frighteningly realistic and layered characters her readers know and love her for. Rachael lives on the Texas Gulf Coast in Hous ...more

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	Crazy Love by Rachael Tamayo (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 94 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Break My Bones (Deadly Sins, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Carnal Knowledge (Deadly Sins, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mine (Deadly Sins, #3) 4.50 avg rating — 40 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucifer's Game 4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chase Me (Friend-Zone, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 40 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once Upon a Kiss 4.48 avg rating — 31 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reach For Me (Friend-Zone, #2) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Release 4.77 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Claim Me (Friend-Zone, #3) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ward D: Frieda Mcfaddin

Overall, this was a good book. It was a little slow, which surprised me since it takes place in a mental ward, but it was enough to keep me going. On one hand, we have what took place in the past, high school, between he...

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Overall, this was a good book. It was a little slow, which surprised me since it takes place in a mental ward, but it was enough to keep me going. On one hand, we have what took place in the past, high school, between her and her crazy friend. You do ...more
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I listened to this on Audible and googled the images in the book. I had to, my curiosity forced me to do it as I'd heard so much about how creepy they were on BookTok and while the descriptions in the audible version were nice- seeing them did make a ...more
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Rachael Tamayo rated a book really liked it The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I finally gave in and did it. I picked up a Frieda Mcfadden book. I really enjoyed this, her storytelling abilities are great. She has a knack for taking something simple and twisting it into a nail-biting, white-knuckle thrill ride that you can't pu ...more
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I enjoyed this book and i wasn't traumatized by it the way I was with The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. I mean that in the best possible way, of course. As a thriller author, I worship at the altars of Karin Slaughter and Stephen King, taking notes ...more
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I enjoyed this book and i wasn't traumatized by it the way I was with The Good Daughter and Pretty Girls. I mean that in the best possible way, of course. As a thriller author, I worship at the altars of Karin Slaughter and Stephen King, taking notes ...more
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Ok i had to jump right on another one of these. And man, this one is even better than the last one I read. This author is the master at - you think you know but you dont- at fooling the reader and creating a diversion. It's so well done I strive to b ...more
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