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September 16, 2025
The Boys Are Back In Town Review #GoddessFish
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
Tanith Davenport
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GENRE: Erotic Romance
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BLURB:
Avril Coker, ex-girlfriend of young rockstar Levi Eshton-Gold, is staying at the house of his father, rockstar Ty Eshton-Gold, having been abandoned by her parents due to a pregnancy. However, when Levi arrives home early from his tour with his voice destroyed, he soon makes it clear that he hopes to rekindle their romance.
Avril still feels a spark between them. However she also knows Levi is unaware of the real reason Avril is staying with his family – and the deranged fan who caused Avril’s miscarriage.
Ty, as the band’s manager, has plans to keep the band going, including a reality TV show and a new album which Avril herself will be singing on. As her and Levi’s passion soon reignites, Avril finds herself working to support Levi’s band Astral Shudder and to help Levi regain his voice – but can Avril and Levi see a future together, or will Levi’s career and his cruel fan keep them apart?
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Excerpt
It wasn’t until they were finishing dessert that they heard a knock on the door.
“I’ll get that.” Ty stood and moved towards the doorway. “He must have lost his key.”
Lyra and Elspeth both stood and followed him, Avril trailing behind them uncertainly. This had the potential to be very awkward.
Ty unlocked the door and Levi stepped in, dragging his wheeled suitcase behind him. His eyes immediately locked onto Avril, a look of surprise crossing his face. Avril stared back at him, waiting to see if he would speak first.
She knew she looked different from when he had last seen her. Her blonde hair was now cut short and highlighted; she was wearing contacts instead of glasses, so her green eyes were brighter, more visible. She had had her ears pierced a second time, dangly earrings brushing the Astral Shudder tattoo on her shoulder. And she had stopped getting spray tans, so her skin was back to its natural alabaster shade.
Levi looked thinner than before, but his brown hair was still long, held back by a bandana that made him look like a young Axl Rose. He was wearing eyeliner, something he had rarely done in the past, but it brought out his brown eyes, which were fixed intensely on hers. And he was wearing leather trousers and a leather jacket over a t-shirt—he had always said he wanted a new leather jacket, and here it was.
She had always loved his leather trousers. The way they hugged his perfect ass as he moved on stage, the delicious scent they had given his skin. She could remember the way his hair had swayed as he sang, the way the sweat glistened on his taut muscles.
She remembered everything.
Elspeth stepped forward and pulled Levi into a hug, breaking the tension. Avril felt her shoulders relax. Maybe this would be straightforward after all.
“Darling. We’re so glad you’re finally home. You must be exhausted.”
Levi nodded silently, and Ty moved forward to take the case from him.
“We’ve saved you some dinner. Sit down and you can tell us everything.”
“No,” Levi answered haltingly. “I can’t.”
Something in Avril’s gut twisted painfully.
Levi’s voice, once rich and throaty, was now a rasp.
This is it. This is why they stopped the tour.
Levi’s perfect rock voice had been destroyed.
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Ornery Owl's Review
Rating: Three out of Five Stars
The idea of a musician forced to return home due to a catastrophic, potentially career-ending medical issue is engaging. The drama between said musician and his ex, whom he returns home to discover his parents have invited to move in, is compelling.
Unfortunately, my Editor Brain took over very early in this tale and it became impossible for me to switch back to Reader Mode. This happens when I read stories that don't feel like they've gone through a thorough editing process. Although the manuscript was free of typos, the story feels unpolished and bogged down by minutia. For example:
"The kitchen, like every other room in the Eshton-Golds’ house—or mansion, probably—was huge, luxurious, and filled with every modern device."
Dispense with the filler. Call it a mansion. Also, throw out most of the em-dashes. They are strong contributors to the air of indecisiveness that plagues this work.
Also, Avril's ominous stomach pain turns out to be...
Gallstones.
Really?
Romance readers are not interested in gall bladder removals. Unplanned pregnancies, yes. Something life-threatening where the love interest's support plays a key part in recovery, yes. Not routine surgeries like removal of a faulty gall bladder. The author could squeeze so much more of the kind of drama that romance readers crave out of the story by timing things so Avril is pregnant with Levi's child.
The scenario could play out like my own real-life situation. I was told I couldn't get pregnant. After being nauseous for a month straight, I went to the doctor expecting to hear that I had something like stomach cancer. Imagine my surprise when she told me I was pregnant.
Or, perhaps, Avril is experiencing complications from the miscarriage she suffered. This can happen when something from the miscarriage was not completely expelled from the uterus. This could impact Avril's ability to become pregnant in the future. In such a case, Levi's support would be invaluable to her.
This story has the potential to be engaging, exciting, and unforgettable. In its current form, it reads too much like a work in progress that has been run through a spelling and grammar check but has not undergone a comprehensive editing process.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Tanith Davenport began writing erotica at the age of 27 by way of the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writers' Scheme. Her debut novel "The Hand He Dealt" was released by Totally Bound in June 2011 and was shortlisted for the Joan Hessayon Award for 2012.
Tanith has had short stories published by Totally Bound, Naughty Nights Press, Evernight Publishing and House of Erotica. She loves to travel and dreams of one day taking a driving tour of the United States, preferably in a classic 1950s pink Cadillac Eldorado.
Tanith's idea of heaven is an Indian head massage with a Mojito at her side.
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Changing Woman's Hair Release Blitz #rabtbooktours
Marin Sinclair, Book 2
Suspense Thriller
Date Published: 09/15/2025
Publisher: RabbitHole LLC
About the Author
Drawing from her own life story in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation, author Jan D. Payne offers readers a journey into the heart of the American Southwest in a modern-day romantic suspense series. Writing characters who navigate diverse cultural influences to explore the lines between the seen and the unseen, the modern and the traditional, the present and the past—she creates a world where the impossible becomes possible, and mythical legends come to life.
Jan is a member of Western Writers of America and Women Writing the West. She and her husband live in northern Minnesota with their three big dogs—Kaibab, Rudi, and Orrin. Visit her website at: jandpayne.com
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The Patron Saint of Lost Girls Release Blitz #rabtbooktours
Literary Fiction / Short Story Collection
Date Published: 09-16-2025
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
In this collection of linked stories, we follow Mary as she seeks to cope with and withstand hardship and confront her fears of exploitation, abuse, and death. Along the way, she delves into the complex yet nurturing relationships with her family and friends who teach her to love better, live fuller, and question power. The Patron Saint of Lost Girls presents an unflinching tale of life in the late twentieth-century postindustrial Midwest.
About the Author
Maureen Aitken’s short-story collection, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, received a Kirkus star, the Nilsen Prize, and the Foreword Review INDIE Gold Prize for General Fiction. It will be reissued in September, 2025 by Wayne State University Press. Her stories have earned a Minnesota State Arts Board’s Artist Initiative Grant, a Loft Mentor Award, an award from Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. It was also nominated for a Minnesota Book Award. Her stories have been published in Prairie Schooner and New Letters, among others. This is her second story featured in The Missouri Review’s Blast section.
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Scenes From a Song Teaser Tuesday #rabtbooktours
Music Fiction
Date Published: 09-30-2025
Publisher: Covfefe Press
For anyone who's ever said, "They're playing my song!"
On Halloween Eve, 1961, in his dingy Bronx walkup apartment, seventeen-year-old Jimmy Welton hears the opening notes of a song in his head. Jimmy’s still mourning his firefighter father, who taught him to play the guitar but recently died in a house fire, leaving his family destitute. Jimmy takes this song, about all he misses from his life now, to the New York amusement park where he works after school. There, he meets Mark Morgan, a rebellious teen with his own band, who eventually invites Jimmy to join them. And the rest is rock'n roll history...The GooseBumps become a worldwide phenomenon, and the songs they write and sing together become the backbone of rock musical history. And the song Jimmy first heard on Halloween, "Wrapped in Gauze", becomes the song that not only comforts him in that terrible time but also comforts others: Victoria, recently divorced and dealing with an unthinkable family tragedy; Carolyn, whose final flippant words to someone in pain can't be taken back; and Jack, battling back from unimaginable loss with the help of his cheeky therapist and a song he thinks he hates.
SCENES FROM A SONG is the story of a song that makes us smile, that breaks our hearts, that stays with us forever, and the very special band that started it all.
Mark went on, “Jimmy’s got a great new song we hope you’ll get up and dance to. It’s so new, we’re playing it here for the first time. I don’t even know it!”
The audience chuckled—they clearly liked Mark—but Jimmy was suddenly nervous as Mark swung the microphone toward him. They’d liked the first songs, and Jimmy had kept up fine with Kellen on guitar, but he and Mark hadn’t sung harmony yet, and the new song that Mark had generously allotted lead to him wasn’t coming up till later. He had to put “Bawk Bawk” over.
He took a deep breath and stepped up to the mike, trying to sound reassuring and confident. “Hi, folks. This is new, and, well, we hope you like it. It’s a dance song, and we’ll do all the moves up here, and you can just follow us. The song is called ‘Bawk Bawk’.”
He did the four-count lead-in and Kellen came in behind him, with Mark backing him up. Hammy bashed out a steady rhythm, and Jimmy launched into the vocal, trying to pump up the energy with exuberant gestures. He strutted, he clucked, he waved, he pumped his elbows together like a chicken.
The audience just about died laughing.
No one clapped. No one stomped their feet. No one got up and danced.
But they did laugh their heads off, all the time Jimmy was singing. They laughed so much they could hardly hear the vocal, though he kept going doggedly till the end. He remembered to do the high whistle and the click of his heels, and when he bobbed his head like a chicken for the final notes, the audience all but fell out of their seats. Jimmy began to feel like a fool.
Hammy played the last beats on the drums, and Kellen finished strumming his guitar with a flourish.
As the last notes died away, Jimmy gave an embarrassed nod to the audience. They finally stopped laughing.
They began to clap.
They began to cheer.
In a moment, the room was echoing with stomping feet and yelling patrons.
About the Author
SUSAN SLOATE is the author or co-author of more than 25 published books. This includes 3 editions of Forward to Camelot, a time-travel thriller about the JFK assassination that became a #6 Amazon bestseller, was honored in 3 literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company for film production. She also wrote the autobiographical Broadway novel Stealing Fire, which became a #2 Amazon bestseller and Hot New Release, and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a new genre: the self-help novel.
Susan has also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way, which won the silver medal in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest for The History Channel. She has also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, edited the popular Kyle & Corey young-adult book series, managed two political campaigns and founded an author’s festival to promote student literacy in her hometown outside Charleston, SC. She has appeared in multiple volumes of WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA, WHO’S WHO IN ENTERTAINMENT and WHO’S WHO AMONG AMERICAN WOMEN.
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Their Reluctant Mate Book Blitz #rabtbooktours
This post contains material suitable only for readers 18+.
Dark Romance, Shifter Romance
Date Published: January 24, 2025
They tamed her in public. They'll claim and share her in private.
Within moments of being given as a mate to three fearsome shifters, Lexie was stripped bare, spanked for her defiance, and then brought to a shameful climax with their whole village watching.
But as she's carried off with her punished ass still sore inside and out, it's not what these savage beasts did to her in public that's on her mind.
It's what they're going to do to her once they have her all to themselves.
Publisher's Note: Their Reluctant Mate is a stand-alone romance which is the first book in the Rydarian Mates series. It includes spankings and rough, intense sexual scenes. If such material offends you, this might not be the book for you.
Ivy writes sci-fi and paranormal erotica with strong romantic themes. She lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado and enjoys hearing from readers. Contact her through her website. ivybarrett.com
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The Tide Waits For No Woman Book Blitz #rabtbooktours
Historical Fiction, American Civil War
Date Published: September 16, 2025
The unlikely companions must work together to ensure their survival through the long, harsh winter and find themselves growing closer, creating an unexpected family few societies would approve of—and leaving Abby with what feels like an impossible choice. When spring comes, she will continue her quest to see the fugitive family safely to Canada. And then, she must decide where she truly belongs.
About the Author
Richard K. Perkins was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and grew up in two New England villages. He is a US Naval Academy graduate, a career naval officer, and a systems engineer in the aerospace sector. He earned graduate degrees from the National Intelligence University, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He has contributed nonfiction columns for The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review and published short fiction in Penn Union. He lives with his wife in Southeastern Virginia, where he spends his time penning historical fiction.
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September 12, 2025
The Emerald Regal Guard and the Fern of Revival Book Blitz #rabtbooktours
Children's Middle Grade Chapter Book, Action/Adventure
Date Published: March 6, 2025
-Enter the embattled woodland of the Lizard King Anole
-Behold a tail of enchanting alliances beyond sword and shield, claw and cutlass
About the Author
Jason Lontz grew up in New Jersey, where his love for story telling took root among books, backyard adventures, and bold imagination. His debut action-adventure novel, The Emerald Regal Guard & the Fern of Revival, channels the wild charm of coastal Carolina, and a flair for creating immersive worlds. Jason is currently working on the third book in the series, continuing the saga with even greater stakes and deeper magic.
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September 11, 2025
Why Good Things Happen to Bad People Book Blitz #rabtbooktours
Spiritual
Date Published: July 14,2025
In this deeply thought-provoking book, author Vu Do invites readers to explore the hidden patterns behind life’s seeming injustices. Drawing from philosophy, spirituality, and the laws of nature, he reveals a universe built not on fairness, but on balance—where light needs darkness, and struggle conceals blessings.
Discover:
* Why good and bad are not opposites—but partners
* How the concept of duality shapes every experience
* The meaning behind suffering, delay, and paradox
* How to find peace in what once felt unfair
This is not a book of answers. It’s a book of deeper seeing. A quiet revolution for the soul who dares to question the surface—and trust what lies beneath.
About the Author
Vu M. Do is a writer, thinker, and keen observer of life’s paradoxes. Grounded in daily meditation, he explores the balance between light and shadow, meaning and mystery: a passionate tea enthusiast and gardener who loves Japanese maple trees. He values the beauty of simplicity and finds wisdom in silence. He lives by the philosophy that less is more. His work reflects a curiosity about duality, justice, and the fundamental rhythms that shape human life.
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Penny and Friends Book Blitz #rabtbooktours
Penny and Friends is more than a children’s book—it explores the essential values of money and friendships. Tailored for young minds from Kindergarten to 3rd grade, this engaging story teaches children not just the value of a dollar bill, a quarter, nickel, dime, or penny, but also the invaluable importance of relationships.
Jamil McGhee was inspired to write Penny and Friends because of my interest in helping children have an enjoyable and exciting experience while learning. My first book, Zaniness at the Zoo, was published in 2008.
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September 10, 2025
Chaos Book Blitz #rabtbooktours
Epic Fantasy
Amid the power struggle for the throne of a vast Empire, mortals and newly born magical gods come into contact for the first time on the Known Worlds. Meanwhile a young boy is swept along with a fierce group of warriors on their expedition to an only recently discovered Wild World where otherworldly dangers and treasures await!
C.W. Holcomb's writing style and major influences include a wide variety of well known novelists that came before him including, J.R.R Tolkien, Mary Stewart, Raymond E. Feist, C.S. Lewis, Robert Jordan, Elizabeth Hayden and Frank Herbert. The biggest influences on his style were Terry Brooks and Terry Goodkind. He has drawn inspiration for his novels from other areas as, well including, animated shows and video games.
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