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February 28, 2025
Blog Tour: THE UNFORGETTING by Bonnie Traymore
Some buried secrets are better left unearthed.
The Unforgetting
by Bonnie Traymore
Genre: Psychological Thriller, Suspense
The morning after a raging college graduation party, we found Lanie Martinlying at the bottom of a ravine, her neck snapped in a fatal fall. And I’m notproud of what came next.
Before we called the police, we covered ourselves. Cleaned up from the blow-outat Ella’s cabin in the Adirondacks the night before. Got our stories straight.
Ella begged me not to tell the police what I saw. She insisted that it was anaccident—and we all went along. What did I know? I was plastered that night,and large chunks of that evening are missing for me.
But now, in my postpartum state, memories are starting to return, and I can’thelp but feel that they might be connected to the soul crushing depression I’vebeen experiencing. Is it guilt? Or do I know more than I think I do?
So when I receive Ella’s invitation for a ten-year reunion at her family camp—agathering of remembrance and healing, she’s calling it—I know I have to go.
Are the memories I’m struggling to recover the key to my moving on? To beingable to take care of my infant son and stay married to the perfect man?
Or are they a death sentence for me, too?
"The Unforgetting is a great read filled with tension on everypage, stunning twist after twist, and a mind-blowing ending that you’ll neversee coming. Highly recommended!" – R.G. Belsky, author of the ClareCarlson series.
“The Unforgetting is a riveting, twisty, slow-burn atmosphericthriller that will delight and disturb, in the best possible ways. Highlyrecommended.” Douglas Corleone, international bestselling author of Fallsto Pieces
Review: A 10-year college reunion at aremote cabin in the woods to remember the tragic death of a friend. Now, Reaganwas returning with something she knew about that “accidental” death.
In the beginning—before she evengets to the cabin—Reagan gives us the low-down about her post-partum depressionsince having the baby and all her problems before then. It wasn’t exactlyriveting, but it gave us a good look at her life. She doesn’t get to the cabinuntil chapter 6 when it really starts to pick up. The narrative, especially onReagan’s side, can get a little long-winded, making the read feel longer thanit should.
When the old friends start tocongregate and talk, which bring back more memories of that fateful night forReagan, it gets more interesting. Based on the narrative, Ella seems to be theone that wants to keep Lanie’s death buried with something she hoped wouldn’tcome up. But what?
Little by little, we learn moreabout that tragic night. Each new tidbit keeps you immersed, eager to find outmore. It gets even better when one member of the group dies and they all turnon each other. It just makes you keep turning those pages. The conclusion, ofcourse, wasn’t as exciting as I expected it to be, but it ended rather neatly.A good read!
Rating:4 stars
Bonnie Traymore is the award-winning, Amazon best sellingauthor of page-turner mystery/thrillers that hit close to home. Her booksfeature strong but relatable female protagonists. The plots explore difficulttopics such as jealousy, infidelity, murder, and the impact of psychologicaldisorders, but she also includes bits of romance and humor to lighten the moodfrom time to time. She's an active status member of International ThrillerWriters and Mystery Writers of America.
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Teaser: FRENCH CRUISES CAN KILL YOU by Constance Meccarello-Gerson
The Hassle High Mystery Series, Book 3
Cozy Mystery
Date Published: 11-14-2020
Cozy Mystery with Death Romance and twists on a French Cruise with the Hassle High group. Complete with occult, kidnapping and French Recipes.
Excerpt
Chapter One Lyon
Frankly, I couldn’t believe we were on our way to the ship in Lyon for the Tomato River Cruise. I ‘m Maria Bruno Cohen, Principal at Hassle High School in Queens New York. My students, the Nut Squad, had won a cruise for their presentation of the Hamlet the Musical at the school. They have been invited on a free cruise through France in exchange for their performances on board the ship. The owner of Tomato Cruises also gave a free trip to me and my husband Al. The plane trip had been exciting as I tried to keep a lot of liquor out of the Nut Squad’s hands , not an easy thing to do, since quite a few of them were legal age in France.
“No drinking of liquor on this plane. No student drinking. “ I announced clearly as we boarded. The Nut Squad groaned.
They were called the Nut Squad because they were artistic and did crazy things. But a principal can do nothing but try to keep them away from the booze! We all got to Paris tired and sober. At least Al and I were tired and sober.
We piled into the cars sent for us by Tomato Cruise lines and arrived at our hotel near the Opera House. The drive into Paris from the airport was wonderful. One could see the Eiffel Tower and the skyline of Paris in the distance as one got closer and closer.
All the students, fourteen of them, had teachers’ rooms near their rooms, to keep an eye on them. Though personally I wasn’t so sure about the teachers! Maybe a few of them needed looking after too. From the faculty was Fred Kelley tall, thin, dark, a professed warlock, with an edge of something slightly evil about him, with his basic black outfits and maybe some witchcraft items in his suitcases. He had been raised in a coven. He also had no taste in women. His last fiancée turned out to be a murderer. I knew him from summer school. I was keeping an eye on him. I didn’t trust Kelley. Mr. Kane, the superintendent insisted I take Kelley on this trip, “to help him get over his bad experience with his ex-fiancé and summer school.” Kane really liked Kelley. I think it was because Kelley had been a media attraction with his weird warlock ideas.
Megan Murphy, short, cubby grey hair cut short, Megan, was the Math Assistant Principal, not brilliant but sweet I knew from experience the students could run rings around her. Then we had three new teachers sent by the superintendent to join my school when we got back in September. Superintendent Kane insisted I take them with me to France. This was because new teachers were cheaper than older ones.
“Great experience for the new faculty. Gives them a chance to meet you and the students in a natural setting.” He rasped this at me on the phone as I was packing.
“Yes sir!” I replied.
What was I supposed to do, he’s my Boss! So, I had Ms. Vanna Hayes, science teacher, a slim, twentyish something black teacher who really looked like Nefertiti. This was her first teaching job. She was lovely to look at, all the Nut Squad boys were staring at her all the time. I hoped that is all they did to her on this trip.
Then I had Mr. Ben Franklin, yeah, that’s really his name. He was, of all things, from Japan. He was an exchange teacher. The superintendent had promised me he was an excellent math teacher. Megan had promised me to check that out. Though Megan as a math chair was not really noted for her math skills. We would just have to wait and see. He was very quiet and very short. I hoped he liked kids.
Next was Ms. Desiree Cavalier , she was the new French teacher. About twenty-five , with a nice figure and long blonde hair. She was born in Normandy. Her French was very good.
Jeff on the Nut Squad told me. “Hey, Teach, I mean Princey, our French is like okay too!” I nodded. I couldn’t wait to hear it. The thought of hearing it kept me up nights. Anyway, I was glad to have Ms. Desiree. There was one more teacher the superintendent had included for me.
Mr. Tim Leary, yeah, I know, but it is his real name, I checked his passport even. He was thirty with long hair pulled back in a ponytail, and six foot four at least. He was as tall as Kelley. He was going to be my new social studies chairperson.
“He has been teaching five years at Townsend Harris High School and is a wonderful teacher. He just got an Assistant Principal License. He’ll be great at Hassle High.” The superintendent announced in an email to me on my last day at home.
Well, here we all were. We’d spent one night in Paris. Al my husband, and I had gone to bed early. We had a short dinner with his French cousins in a nice restaurant. Al was born in France. I gave instructions to the teachers to keep track of the kids. And I wasn’t woken up except for breakfast! A miracle! And as we ate the continental breakfast in the hotel, no problems were mentioned from the night before in Paris. I didn’t ask for any either. We piled into the cars out front and left our hotel in Paris for the TGV train to Lyon.
The French countryside was beautiful, lots of farmland and trees, it was very green. I loved the white cows. So different from our black or brown cows. There were fields of corn which Al explained was used to the feed the cattle. The French didn’t eat corn like we did.
Suddenly Al and I had company in our seats. Jeff tall blonde and very thin ,and Martha long dark hair and big brown eyes, came and sat next to us.
“ Hey, this is great !” said Martha. “It is really pretty. Princey, do you know where the teens hang in Lyon?”
“Yeah, we would like to meet some French teens you know. Especially the girls?” Jeff winked at Al. Oh boy, I thought.
Al frowned a little at Jeff and the wink. “ No,” he answered. “ And I don’t have any relatives in Lyon to ask about that.”
Well, that was handled with tack I thought. Jeff frowned at Al. “Could you phone a relative and see if they know? Otherwise, we can look it up on social media. Yeah, on second thought that’s what we’ll do!” Jeff stood and smiled at me. Martha stood and followed him to the back of the train car where the teens were sitting together. “Hey! Like who has a working cellphone?” Jeff yelled at them.
When Jeff yelled, a couple dressed in the same style of black clothing, black shirts and shorts, sitting across from Al and me turned to us. Who wore black in ninety-degree heat? I guess they thought I should do something about Jeff. I shrugged back at them. Did they think I could control this group? They were in for a surprise. It would be along train ride if they thought I could do that. Hopefully, they wouldn’t be joining us on the boat.
With no more teenager confabs we arrived in Lyon. I was pleased when Mr. Leary got all the students together with their luggage. We stepped off with our luggage, which was rapidly taken by porters. Mr. Leary was explaining, “Lyon is an UNESCO site. It was once the capitol of Gaul. We will be touring the city quickly on our way to the boat by bus. Please follow your teachers. I will describe what we drive past. The bus is over there.” He pointed to the bus. He headed for the bus. Eleven of the students kind of slowly followed him. They were carrying their luggage to be handed to the porters waiting to load the luggage on the bus.
The second he turned his head, Jeff, Martha and Tim, who was six-foot three , thin and with black hair and tan olive skin, started to walk off in the other direction. I went after them. “Get on that bus. I won’t spend the time searching all of Lyon for you today. If you guys wander off, I will not be happy!”
Martha and Tim looked slightly guilty at getting caught. Jeff didn’t. He smiled at me. “Okay Princey, we’ll do it. We just wanted to look around ya know?”
I nodded my head. I knew alright! Al had come back. He was trying to get me to head for the bus too, I guess. Or maybe he thought I needed help with crowd control. Al had taught for many years too. We all walked together to the bus and boarded it. One emergency search for missing students averted. Leary started the tour on the bus. He knew his material but had a speaking voice that could make you nod off to dreamland. At least there were no further incidents and we got to the boat. As we were leaving the bus for the boat, I made an announcement.
“Remember students you are going to a formal dinner tonight at seven to meet all the other passengers. You are to dress up for dinner. Good behavior is expected.” I concluded. The students all clapped my little speech. Jeff spoke up.
“Yeah, everybody look cool for tonight like Mrs. Bruno says okay?” He turned and looked at me. “Don’t you worry, we got it.”
Why didn’t I believe it?
Anyway, the boat was straight ahead and so was a cat. It was a yellow striped tabby cat, and very big, sitting on the gangplank. The kids all petted it as they went by. We got on board. I had put Ben Franklin in charge of giving out cabin assignments for the kids. The rest of the teachers and Al and I walked up to the reception desk on board. Franklin went first and he started to hand out keys and assign rooms. I observed for a minute, but all looked well. Al was talking to the desk clerk, who gave him a key.
“Mr. Cohen,” he said, “your luggage is in your room.” He smiled.
“Thank you,” replied Al.
The service was wonderful. I turned to the teachers, “see you at seven.” Al and I started walking to our cabin to see what it was like. As I passed Ben Franklin I said, “please give me a copy of the cabin assignments when you are through.”
“Yes, Mrs. Bruno,” he answered softly. I waved at the students who were standing around and walked after Al to our cabin in the middle of the ship.
Al opened the door. There was a nice bowl of fruit and two bottles of wine from Captain Brin on our desk. The cabin was small, especially with all my luggage, but okay. I always over pack. Al used to hate that fact that I overpacked, now he just shakes his head. That’s what over thirty years of marriage does to you. There was a balcony with two chairs on it. A queen size bed, a television on the wall, a safe in a cabinet that had a few dresser drawers in it and a small refrigerator. Everything was compact but very nice and clean. The empty luggage could go under the bed and in the closet. I had a feeling everything would be fine. Al was smiling.
“Nice,” he said, “ and we are alone for a while till dinner.” I smiled at him.
We were trying to work on our rocky marriage this trip. Thirty years ago, I had been engaged to Joe Viola, a NYC detective. We had met again. Hassle High had had a few murders take place and Detective Joe Viola was assigned to the cases. Joe wanted me to divorce Al and marry him, even though, thirty years ago, he had dumped me at the altar. I was thinking about it.
“I plan to unpack a bit. Why don’t you open the wine and pour us a drink? Do you think the cat is on the ship?” I asked. I opened one of my three suitcases. Al had packed only one. I pulled out dresses and hung them on the closet. Just as Al handed me a glass of wine there was a knock at the cabin door. Al opened it.
Ben Franklin was there. He had a list of cabins with assigned students in them. I thanked him and Al softly closed the door. We both kicked off our sneakers and sat on chairs on the balcony. We looked over the river at Lyon before us. It was a pretty site. The Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere was in the distance. The sun was setting. Suddenly the boat started to move. We were on our way. I glanced at the clock on the wall of our cabin. At least an hour before I had to dress for dinner. This was great! I sipped the wine which was quite good. Al and I just sat there and watched as the boat moved off from Lyon. It was a nice calm moment. Little did I know, it wouldn’t last. We finished the wine and got showered and dressed for dinner. Al looked great in his jacket and tie. I looked pretty good since I had lost twenty pounds and could finally get into a petite size eighteen gown. We both walked hand and hand to the front of the boat where the restaurant was located. We were both eager to see what the students were wearing and meet the other guests.
About the Author
Constance Meccarello-Gerson was born in Poughkeepsie N.Y. She is a graduate of Florida Southern College with a BA in Acting. She also attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. HB Studio, Actors Studio, in NYC. She is a member of SAG, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Si Omega. Her MFA in Acting is from Brooklyn College. She has appeared on TV, film, and on stage in NYC. For 20 years she taught as a mentor and teacher of English and Theatre arts for the New York City Department of Education and for the University at Santa Cruz. She also taught for ten years as a Speech Coordinator at Touro College. She was an executive at Bloomingdales. Her writing as appeared in Musings, also in the Best American Poets series. Murder at Hassle High is her first cozy mystery. Summertime Murder at Hassle High is her second and French Cruises Can Kill You is the third. She wrote Armera a sci fi mystery and her Snowball the Sherlock Rabbit series, a group of children books. Currently she lives in NYC with her husband Alain, a parrot named Benji, and lots of fish. She is currently writing Death In a Dorm, another cozy in the Hassle High series.
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February 27, 2025
Blog Tour: THE KILLER WHISKY by Susan Calder
THE KILLER WHISKY
Susan Calder
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GENRE: Mystery
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BLURB:
The1918 influenza pandemic strikes Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Great War ragesoverseas. While her husband fights in Europe, Katharine works in a doctor’soffice to support her children and her brother, a wounded veteran. One nighttheir neighbour suddenly takes sick and dies. The attending doctor concludesthe man died from influenza, but Katharine suspects someone laced his whiskywith a drug that mimics the deadly flu’s symptoms.
Katharineconvinces the police to investigate. Worried about her brother’s involvementwith a suspect, she delves into his secrets and comes to fear he’s connected tothe murder. She grows disturbingly attracted to the investigating detective whoreturns her affections. He’s convinced her brother or someone else close to heris a killer and risks his career to pursue the crime. Katharine must discoverthe truth so she can move forward in a world that has changed forever.
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ExcerptThree:
When the dishes had been cleared, Katharine told thechildren to take their arithmetic books and slates to the kitchen table. Fromtheir lunch conversation, it appeared school that morning had consisted ofplaying the piano, recess, and making soup, lightly salted this time. John wasnow delivering a pot to Marguerite. The children practiced their sums whileKatharine washed the dishes.
She was placing the last bowl in the rack when the doorbellrang. A neighbour? A telegram? Her heart raced as she hurried down the hall.
Detective Tanner stood on the front porch. No telegram, butwas his appearance good news or bad? His face was ruddy from the cold.
“I thought you’d be at work.”
She folded her arms against the chill air. “I took my lunchhour later than usual.”
“I’m here to interview your brother.”
“He’s stepped out for a few minutes. Please come in.”
He entered, closed the door, and hung his fedora on a hallchair hook. She stole a glance in the mirror. A few hairs had escaped her bun.She tucked them behind her ears while he took off his gloves and draped themand his coat on the chair.
“Can I offer you a cup of tea?”
“Anything warm would be wonderful.”
She waved him toward the living room. “Please make yourselfcomfortable while I put on the kettle.”
On her walk to the kitchen, she realized the childrenshouldn’t be in the house while a policeman interviewed John about theirneighbour’s death by suspicious cause.
“Who is there?” Henry asked.
She lit the stove for the kettle. “A visitor for Uncle John.We’ll save sums for later. You two play in the backyard until he leaves.”Fortunately, their outerwear was in the back porch and not the front closet.
“Is it a friend from his band?” Henry asked.
Katharine set the teapot, three cups, and three spoons onthe serving tray. “They need to talk about a private matter, so you’ll have tostay outside until Uncle John comes to fetch you.” She took off her apron.
Lillian got up from her chair. “What if I get cold?”
“Your hat and mittens and boots will keep you warm.”Katharine poured milk into the creamer jug and placed the sugar jar on thetray. “Henry, you help her dress.”
“What if I fall and bang my knee and it’s bleeding all overthe grass?” Lillian said.
“Wipe it clean with a leaf.”
“Is it Mrs. DeLuca?” Henry asked.
“No,” Katharine said. “And don’t disturb Uncle John. I meanit. If you do, I’ll stay home from work tomorrow and we’ll do sums all day. Norecess or music or—”
They dashed to the back porch, playtime eclipsing Henry’scuriosity and Lillian’s worries.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Susan Calder lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is the authorof five novels published by BWL Publishing Inc. A Deadly Fall, Ten Days inSummer, Winter's Rage and Spring Into Danger are part of her Paula SavardMystery Series. The books follow the adventures of Paula, a Calgary insuranceadjuster who works with the police to solve insurance-related crimes. Susan’sstandalone suspense novel, To Catch a Fox takes a troubled Calgary woman toSouthern California on a quest to find her missing mother. In December 2024,BWL will release Susan’s first historical novel, A Killer Whisky. The story isset in 1918 Calgary and will be the 12th and final book of the BWL CanadianHistorical Mystery Series. Susan has also published non-fiction articles. Hershort stories and poems have won contests and appeared in numerous anthologiesand magazines. She is a member of Crime Writers of Canada, Sisters in Crime,and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.
Website: https://susancalder.com/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Susan-Calder-Author/100063848538688/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Whisky-Canadian-Historical-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0DN416CJQ/ref=sr_1_1
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February 26, 2025
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge
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My favorite hobby, and why.My favorite hobby would definitely be reading. Why? Because I can enter into different worlds without ever having to leave my seat. If the book is good, then getting into it would be no problem. Reading is definitely easier than writing my own stories. Although I do enjoy writing my own stories, it's definitely more work whereas reading a story is just relaxing and enjoyable. Some other hobbies that I like include doing puzzles like Sudoku and Logic Grids, and I also like to take walks.Book Blast: THE ART TO ONLINE DATING by Fleur Lamot
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A step-by-step guide to navigating dating and finding love on the World Wide Web, written by someone with firsthand experience on the topic, and who has also tested the theory on a number of case studies and through research. Authored from a female perspective, directed to a female audience, although potentially an eye opening and helpful read for a male reader too.
This book is not about making you a better person, nor is it a self help book. It is about changing your mindset when embarking on singledom and internet dating to not fear it, by equipping you with the understanding of people's actions and motives.
Throughout the book you will be guided in setting up your online profile, picking your match, the all important art and the do's and don'ts through every step of courting someone, all the way to going forward with your ultimate love match!
Reading this book will bring you confidence and or at least clarity. It will make you think about your past experiences and open your eyes to see where they may have gone wrong, and more importantly to ensure the same mistakes don't happen to you on future experiences.
Read an Excerpt
Long gone are the days of meeting a potential partner in a bar or at a music festival or at parties. You might be lucky enough to do so, but as time goes on and you get older, or as you and your potentials rely more on technology to meet someone, or as you lose the skills to do so by becoming accustomed to technology, the chances are getting thinner. There will be fewer parties with fewer single people, or there will be more awkward interactions at these parties, or your friends will grow old and become tired of attending music festivals and going to bars. Also, let’s face it: as we get older, the music at venues become too loud and we simply just want to have a good conversation, good food, and good wine which brings on more occasions like dinner events and dinner parties. These are the least likely type of events to meet someone, unless you are lucky enough to be set up by a mutual friend.
So, you might find yourself single and at a loss. Maybe it simply might be that all your friends are in relationships and you have no one to go out with. This is where online dating comes into play. Online dating has such a bad stigma, but if you look at it at another way, whilst your friends are becoming old and boring or are in relationships and/or just don’t want to go out anymore for whatever reason, you have an infinite number of potential new people to meet and play with who are in the exact same boat as you.
About the Author: I successfully found love online using historical principles, understanding people's motives and actions, listening to the right people, as well as trusting my own instincts. I am now married and a mother. I am a business woman with a very successful business, built from extensive networking and relationship management experience. I have received professional mentoring and coaching, which has helped me achieve all of this.
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Book Blast: THE ART OF ONLINE DATING by Fleur Lamot
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Fleur Lamot will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
A step-by-step guide to navigating dating and finding love on the World Wide Web, written by someone with firsthand experience on the topic, and who has also tested the theory on a number of case studies and through research. Authored from a female perspective, directed to a female audience, although potentially an eye opening and helpful read for a male reader too.
This book is not about making you a better person, nor is it a self help book. It is about changing your mindset when embarking on singledom and internet dating to not fear it, by equipping you with the understanding of people's actions and motives.
Throughout the book you will be guided in setting up your online profile, picking your match, the all important art and the do's and don'ts through every step of courting someone, all the way to going forward with your ultimate love match!
Reading this book will bring you confidence and or at least clarity. It will make you think about your past experiences and open your eyes to see where they may have gone wrong, and more importantly to ensure the same mistakes don't happen to you on future experiences.
Read an Excerpt
Long gone are the days of meeting a potential partner in a bar or at a music festival or at parties. You might be lucky enough to do so, but as time goes on and you get older, or as you and your potentials rely more on technology to meet someone, or as you lose the skills to do so by becoming accustomed to technology, the chances are getting thinner. There will be fewer parties with fewer single people, or there will be more awkward interactions at these parties, or your friends will grow old and become tired of attending music festivals and going to bars. Also, let’s face it: as we get older, the music at venues become too loud and we simply just want to have a good conversation, good food, and good wine which brings on more occasions like dinner events and dinner parties. These are the least likely type of events to meet someone, unless you are lucky enough to be set up by a mutual friend.
So, you might find yourself single and at a loss. Maybe it simply might be that all your friends are in relationships and you have no one to go out with. This is where online dating comes into play. Online dating has such a bad stigma, but if you look at it at another way, whilst your friends are becoming old and boring or are in relationships and/or just don’t want to go out anymore for whatever reason, you have an infinite number of potential new people to meet and play with who are in the exact same boat as you.
About the Author: I successfully found love online using historical principles, understanding people's motives and actions, listening to the right people, as well as trusting my own instincts. I am now married and a mother. I am a business woman with a very successful business, built from extensive networking and relationship management experience. I have received professional mentoring and coaching, which has helped me achieve all of this.
INSTAGRAM: http://www.instagram.com/fleurlamot
AMAZON.COM: https://www.amazon.com.au/Art-Online-Dating-Fleur-Lamot/dp/0228867509
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February 24, 2025
Blog Tour: WOULD YOU RATHER... by Kimberly Baer
The luck of thedraw has never been riskier.
Would YouRather…
part of TheHaunting of Pinedale High Series
by Kimberly Baer
Genre: YAParanormal
Pick a card, anycard…
Would you rather be an amazing artist or a brilliant mathematician?
Would you rather lose your mother or your father?
Would you rather roast to death or freeze to death?
It’s a silly game hosted by a substitute teacher, an exercise in exploring theworkings of the teenage mind. Twenty-three students make their choices, and thegame is forgotten—until the chosen scenarios start coming true. Classmates Ava,Blake, and Charlie are determined to track down the mysterious teacher andpersuade him to end the curse. But the clock is ticking, lives hang in thebalance, and the foe they seek is more menacing than they could imagine.
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Review: Would you rather be an amazingartist or a brilliant mathematician? Would you rather be hairy or bald? Wouldyou rather have the perfect spouse or the perfect job? Sounded like a funenough game, right?
But then it gets weird.
Would you rather accidentally killsomeone or be kidnapped by a serial killer? Yikes!
What was with the substituteteacher and this weird game?
But this all fun and games, right?It wasn’t real. But what if they did turn out to be real?
One by one, the scenarios startcoming true for the kids. One becomes a great artist. One got the perfect jobas a video game tester. One won $1000 in the lottery. But what’s going tohappen to the ones that got the bad scenarios? Would they really die?
It was certainly interesting toget the various scenarios that these kids got and had to choose from. I enjoyedthe different character stories and how everyone was freaking out over theirfates, especially when one of them actually gets kidnapped by the serialkiller. Would the other fates come true as well? How can they stop them? Or canthey even stop them? How many more will die before it all comes to an end?
A gripping-good read! A thrillingghost story! I look forward to another one by this author.
Rating:5 stars
Kimberly Baer is an authorand professional editor who was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, atown marginally famous for having endured three major floods. She even livedthere during one of them. She enjoys power-walking on days when it’s not toohot, too cold, too rainy, too snowy, or too windy. On indoor days, you'relikely to find her hard at work on her next novel or binge-watching oldepisodes of Survivor, her favorite guilty pleasure.
Kim has had her nose in abook practically since birth. Her first story, written at age six, was about ababy chick that hatched out of a little girl’s Easter egg after somehowsurviving the hard-boiling process. These days she writes in a variety of genres,including young adult, middle-grade, and adult romantic suspense. Her books arepublished by The Wild Rose Press and have won several awards.
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Blog Tour: A FAMILY WITH THE COWBOY by Elsa Winckler
When a single dadand his son's teacher clash, sparks fly and it's not only because his son isneglecting his chores to read.
A Family Withthe Cowboy
The Westons ofMontana Book 1
by Elsa Winckler
Genre:Contemporary Small-Town Romance
Widowed rancherHayden Weston knows what it means to be responsible for his siblings, hiseight-year-old son, and the running of the huge family cattle ranch. Some evencall him a stern and grumpy taskmaster and they’re not exactly wrong. So whenHayden discovers his son reading a storybook instead of doing chores, he callson Luke’s teacher to talk about priorities.
School teacherLaura Anderson is new to Marietta, Montana, and has never—until now—beenreprimanded for encouraging a child to read. It doesn’t help thatsweet Luke’s father is the handsome cowboy with the amber eyes that she met inGrey’s Saloon, or that she’s wildly attracted to him.
Sparks keepflying as their paths keep crossing, but Hayden is determined not to give in tohis incomprehensible need to have, hold, and protect Laura from any type ofharm. He’s the one who’ll hurt her if he lets her stray tooclose. He’s not ready to admit his feelings or commit to sharing his life withher.
Even if lovecomes tumbling in.
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I have been reading love stories for as long as I can remember andwhen I ‘met’ the classic authors like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, HenryJames The Brontë sisters, etc. during my Honours studies, I was hooked forlife. I married my college boyfriend and soul mate and after 47 years, 3interesting and wonderful children and 4 beautiful grandchildren, he stillmakes me weak in the knees. We are fortunate to live in the picturesque littleseaside village of Betty's Bay, South Africa with the ocean a block away and abeautiful mountain right behind us. And although life so far has not alwaysbeen an easy ride, it has always been an exciting and interesting one! I likethe heroines in my stories to be beautiful, feisty, independent and headstrong.And the heroes must be strong but possess a generous amount of sensitivity.They are of course, also gorgeous! My stories typically incorporate the familybackground of the characters to better understand where they come from and whothey are when we meet them in the story.
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February 22, 2025
Review: SWING VOL. 1 by Matt Hawkins
College girl with a strict mommoves into her own dorm. Her frisky roommate invites her to a frat party andshe’s like a fish out of water. A lot of the text was small and hard to read,but, fortunately, the images tell the story well.
Soon, good girl Cathy starts anintense romance with a hunky TA. And, yes, it gets physical with some good sexscenes. Of course, her strict mom doesn’t like the situation one bit. Once weget the mom’s okay, it was ON. The one thing her mother asked was for her notto get pregnant…and oopsie! They decide to get married because they loved eachother. Now, two kids later, the heat between them was gone. To spice up hermarriage, Cathy wants to try swinging. Can they really do this though? Theyjoin a lifestyle swinger’s club, where they get to do some experimental stuff.Wow! Suddenly, this couple has found a new lifestyle.
Fun and sexy! I want more!
Rating:4 stars
Review: THE SEX CLUB – Bk 1 by Phillip Stein
Two friends eager to join a sexclub. The story basically introduces the sex club and the girls to a life ofintense pleasure. It all begins with the owner and her boyfriend. Boy, do thethree of them have fun here! A wild and sexy read!
Rating:4 stars
