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August 11, 2025
Spotlight: CHANCE MEETING by Christine Columbs
Genre: Rom-Com
Summary: Melody is fostering her niece while her sister, Captain Opal Erickson, is deployed to Kuwait. A chance meeting at work with Clayton, a construction manager, awakens feelings of the love and romance. Everything is perfect until Opal reveals a family truth and swears Melody to secrecy.
To honor her sisterly pledge, Mel attempts to reject any advances from Clayton, until he guesses the truth. Torn between loyalty to Opal and love for Clayton, she pours herself into work, making a mess of everything. When the dust settles, Mel is left wondering if she’ll be able to put the pieces of her life back together.
Author Bio: Eighteen years ago, while living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and waiting for my ship to come in. I published several short stories and a novel with The Wild Rose Press.
After that, I took an Adult Gap Year that lasted thirteen years.
In 2024, I signed a contract with The Wild Rose Press for my sweetheart romance novel, Chance Meeting.
I am excited to be back writing and looking forward to the release of Chance Meeting and sometime in 2025, I’d Rather Kiss You Goodnight.
Purchase links:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Chance-Meeting-Christine-Columbus-ebook/dp/B0CW19SK79/
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Review: THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL by J.C. Kenney
Can a lost pin help two lonely souls find their one true love? Kaitlin didn't want to go to the Christmas Parade. Michael didn't, either. But when their chance meeting along the parade route is brought to an abrupt and all-too-soon end, an angel steps in to bring them back together.
Kaitlin's beloved heirloom angel pin, to be more exact. Michael finds it on the ground after Kaitlin's gone. With only a name to go on, can he track her down to return the pin before the night ends, as he feels he must? Once she realizes it's gone, is there any chance she'll ever see it again? The only hope they have of finding each other and returning the pin to where it belongs rests with divine intervention and the absolute determination that only comes from true love.
Review: A genuine connection made at theChristmas parade. When she loses her special Angel pin and he finds it, itbecomes a sweet tale of Cinderella as he tries to find her. A good holidayshort to warm your heart!
Rating:4 stars
August 9, 2025
Review: PARKER GIRLS #1 by Terry Moore
I liked the B/W sketches. Nicelines in them.
Hot chick Alex meets a guy on abeach and saves him from a possible stabbing. Wow, what a knock-down! Goodaction shots!
Then a dead girl is found in thewater. Out come the Parker Girls. Then we backtrack to Alex and Mark. She justgot him some money, slept with him, and then left him high and dry. Funny howshe leaves him tied to the bed. What happens next?
Fun and easy read!
Rating:4 stars
Review: PARKER GIRLS #4 by Terry Moore
The Parker Girls are tough withpeople, but they don’t hurt dogs. Good! They’re still looking into Piper May’sdeath. They’re talking to people to get the events before her so-calleddrowning. Man, can you imagine getting your heel stuck in some guy’s brain?Disgusting! A good read!
Rating:4 stars
Review: PARKER GIRLS #3 by Terry Moore
The Parker Girls are still lookingin the actress’ mysterious drowning. Was the billionaire husband involved? ThatAlex is one kick-a chick! Love this series!
Rating:4 stars
Review: PARKER GIRLS #2 by Terry Moore
The naked guy’s been robbed andruns all over the hotel telling everybody about it. But there was no sign ofthis girl and now he’s been kidnapped. Whoa, the Parker Girls are tough,smack-talking chicks!
Even though they’re not in color,the sketchy drawings are still nice. Good storyline and action scenes, but Ijust wish they wouldn’t end so quickly. A good short read!
Rating:4 stars
Review: SEX Book 1 by Joe Casey
Couldn’t read the text very welland couldn’t get the story from the pictures, which were reminiscent of someold-style comic book. If you ask me, there was way too much text to read. Tooconfusing. But there were some nice action scenes and the sex was lustful.
There’s sex and violence—bothgraphic. Of course, I minded more the violence being too graphic rather thanthe sex. Didn’t enjoy this as much as I thought I would. I couldn’t get thestory. What was with the sex club and who was the scary Freddy Krugger guy?What a waste!
Rating:2 stars
Review: SEX Book 2 by Joe Casey
I guess we have superheroes savingthe city and having sex. There were some cool action scenes, but, again, I’mjust going by the pictures in all this as there was too much text at such asmall size. Wish some scenes weren’t so bloody. An okay read
Rating:3 stars
Review: SEX Book 3 by Joe Casey
The dude getting into a karatestance totally buck naked. Now there was a picture! I think we have Batgirl inhere, too. Loved the fight moves. A decent read just based on the pictures.
Rating:3 stars
August 8, 2025
Blog Tour: BLOOD IN THE SHADOWS by Hawk MacKinney
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Hawk MacKinney will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
When marine buddy, Gulfport, Mississippi Sheriff asks Craige Ingram for help, Ingram and Buckingham Parish patrolman ‘Badger’ Thomas Boback find themselves in the summertime dogdays of the humid Gulf Coast. With crowded beaches and an undermanned staff, a routine investigation soon becomes anything but routine when indescribable body parts start showing up along the surf, in beachfront cabins, half-buried in bayou wetlands, stashed under freeway bridges, and across county lines. Craige’s search for answers to identifying victims and killer among the crowds of tourists and skin-and-sun partygoers soon makes it obvious the victims have no connection with one another—until conflicting DNA results and haunting premonitions resembling the warnings Craige’s grannie often had become part of the investigation. The jigsaw of abandoned cross-kin offspring begin a horrifying Gordian Knot tangle that threatens anyone who approaches the shadowy ancient wreck of an old mansion - an asylum from a lost time.
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During the long haint-ridden nights the craving had become scalding, nearly uncontrollable. The green-yellow eyes withdrew into darker corners of windowless rooms, as flickers of Cajun Grandmère Nana’s weathered face swirled in the mist. Everybody around knew ageless Kreyòl Cajun Grandmère Nana. Some of them truly were believers. They knew what they had seen with their own eyes, and no one was going to convince them otherwise. They’d call to her by her dead half-sister’s spook-name, Momby Bocor. In the shadows of full-moon nights, they’d mumble in a breathless cadence, “Momby Bocor. Momby Bocor. Momby Bocor,” that became more chant than phantom witch-worker. Nana’s soft Acadia dialect in her New Orleans patois gave a pleasing lilt to the dapples of moonlight, her outline sauntering the back yard beneath the sprawling sheen of the swamp magnolia’s thick leaves. Not a hair was out of place in the golden red crown circled atop her head. Her frayed sweet gum twig swizzled back and forth in toothless twitches. Time-wrinkled eyes looked, mesmerized, toward the full silvery orb. She could almost see ancient Luna rising out of the gentle watery laps of the Gulf, reflected in the ripples and washing the sandy beaches. Nana often warned her gran’chil’ Ramona about the waxing madness that came from the blinding dazzle of the full moon. Lots of folks shrugged her off as a tiddly old crone passing her unnumbered days and nights inside her own world. Yet Nana’s houseplants never got frost burned, and her early flower beds and vegetable gardens were never planted before the last freeze. Ramona didn’t shrug off her Gran’mere Nana who was sharpened by the clean brisk air spilling among the haints and steamy haunts of bayous that would stay warm until spring. Then would come the days of warm Gulf air piling into big dark thunderheads, and the offshore waters would froth into elegant capped grey plumes. He could hardly wait. Sharp mangled grubby teeth chewed the lower lip pulling it raw. Blood oozed. The wet tongue did a quick taste, fed the perpetual lust. The craving hunger was always there. With the cloudy moon it would make for a cozy night to roam so long as Richard didn’t find out. It would make for good hunting.
About the Author:
Hawk MacKinney has authored several award-winning works of fiction that include THE MOCCASIN HOLLOW MYSTERY SERIES and THE CAIRNS OF SAINCTUARIE SCIENCE FICTION SERIES. His historical romance MOCCASIN TRACE was nominated for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award.
Cross-genre character-driven plots reflect Hawk MacKinney’s southwest upbringing along the Texas and Oklahoma borders. With postgraduate faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both the United States and Jerusalem.
Website: http://www.hawkmackinneyauthor.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Shadows-Hawk-MacKinney/dp/B0FG47PDSV/ref=sr_1_1
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