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March 23, 2021
New Release : Mystic Invisible by Ryder Hunte Clancy #MagicalRealism #YA
Mystic Invisible Ryder Hunte Clancy
Publisher : Winter Goose Publishing
Paperback : 267 pages
ISBN-10 : 1952909058
ISBN-13 : 978-1952909054
Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy.
Whisperings of abnormal enchantments and vicious cat siths grip the small town he now calls home. Fear is at the helm. The instigator is unknown.
And an indefinite moratorium on magic is enforced. In a race against darkness, Monte and his friends must choose who to trust before time runs out, even if it means breaking some rules and facing danger head on.
https://www.ryderhunteclancy.com/
March 22, 2021
New Release
Mystic Invisible
Ryder Hunte Clancy
Publisher : Winter Goose Publishing
Paperback : 267 pages
ISBN-10 : 1952909058
ISBN-13 : 978-1952909054
Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy.
Whisperings of abnormal enchantments and vicious cat siths grip the small town he now calls home. Fear is at the helm. The instigator is unknown.
And an indefinite moratorium on magic is enforced. In a race against darkness, Monte and his friends must choose who to trust before time runs out, even if it means breaking some rules and facing danger head on.
https://www.ryderhunteclancy.com/
https://amzn.to/3eYoEzo
#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
A Bewitching Monday
Horror Author Aidan Lucid: Writing the Dreaded Sequel + giveaway #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/G1LT50E4UmZ
INTERVIEW - URBAN FANTASY - SECRETS OF THE MERMAID (Keepers of Knowledge, #6) by Catherine Stine #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/yc5950E4UkZ
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III - Book Tour #bewitchingbooktours
https://www.jazzybookreviews.com/2021...
New Release
Mystic Invisible by Ryder Hunte Clancy
Magic is forbidden. Legend will not be ignored.
https://amzn.to/3eYoEzo
#YA #MagicalRealism #Fantasy #Magic #Celtic #Scotland #Highlands #Wizards
Spotlight & #Giveaway ~ The Scavenger by Aidan Lucid @TheZargothian ~ #Horror ~ The Hopps Town Series, Book One #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/yQZT50E4Uop
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III is a "Dramatic novel packed with religious fervour, obsession, magic realism and horror.” https://amzn.to/2XB8Rwg
#iartg #bookboost #metaphysical #thriller #paranormal
March 19, 2021
A Bewitching Friday
Spotlight & Excerpt: Secrets of the Mermaid + Giveaway
http://sadiesspotlight.com/secrets-of...
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III #ParanormalThriller #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/e1ht50E38he
Author Interview- Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance #bewitchingbooktours
https://serenasynn.blogspot.com/2021/...
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III is a "Dramatic novel packed with religious fervour, obsession, magic realism and horror.” https://amzn.to/2XB8Rwg
#iartg #bookboost #metaphysical #thriller #paranormal
March 18, 2021
A Bewitching Thursday
Author Interview- Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #UrbanFantasyRomance #bewitchingbooktours
https://serenasynn.blogspot.com/2021/...
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III #ParanormalThriller #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/B1Fp50E26EA
Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/8wkE50E26ND
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III #ParanormalThriller
https://serenasynn.blogspot.com/2021/...
Restless spirits long separated from their burial grounds lurk among the ancient stones in Avondale Cemetery. Learn more in Chapter 9 of Haunted Flint: Filled with History: Avondale and Glenwood Cemeteries
https://amzn.to/2Gt3Cpw #HauntedFlint #RoxanneRhoads #JoeSchipani
Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III is a "Dramatic novel packed with religious fervour, obsession, magic realism and horror.” https://amzn.to/2XB8Rwg
#iartg #bookboost #metaphysical #thriller #paranormal
March 17, 2021
A Bewitching Wednesday
Excerpt: Secrets of the Mermaid (The Keepers of Knowledge Book Six) by Catherine Stine + giveaway
http://www.ismellsheep.com/2021/03/ex...
Goddess of Everything by Paul
DeBlassie III is a "Dramatic novel packed with religious fervour,
obsession, magic realism and horror.” https://amzn.to/2XB8Rwg #iartg #bookboost #metaphysical #thriller #paranormalthriller
Secrets of the Mermaid [Book Tour with Excerpt] #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/Mev850E11ME
Author Interview with Paul DeBlassie III
http://www.roxannerhoads.com/2021/03/...
Music Soundtrack for Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III #ParanormalThriller
I wrote much of Goddess of Everything with the Prince 1977 Jazz Funk Sessions spiraling through the audiosphere of my study.
Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOc2MzvqbN0
Then, I popped into Full On Psychedelic Trance for the final go-throughs/edits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x41UXP53a6w
Goddess of Everything
Paul DeBlassie III
Genre: Paranormal ThrillerPublisher: Hallowed Realms PressDate of Publication: 2.11.20 ISBN: 978-0-578-81368-4ASIN: B08R13FQSHNumber of pages: 199Word Count: 57,900Cover Artist: Aaron C. Yeagle
Tagline: Goddess of Everything is a blood-curdling tale of the affection of one mother for her son and her son's struggle for truth, freedom, and love.
Book Description:
In the mystic land of Aztlan del Norte, a realm of supernatural happenings and unexpected turns of fate, psychiatric healer Gabriél de LaTierra encounters appalling evil within the Orphanage of the Holy Innocents. Children disappear for reasons kept secret by Mother Juana de la Cruz, Superior of the Nunnery and the Orphanage.
Love for Mother Juana, Gabriél's widowed mother turned religious superior, clouds her devoted son's mind. Consuela, Gabriél's wife, confronts his wall of denial. Torn between love for mother and wife, Gabriél turns inward.
It is Consuela who propels Gabriél's discovery of the nighttime blood sacrifice of children in the desert, a centuries-old ritual that imparts immortality to Mother and her nuns. Gabriél is further enraged by Mother Juana's vengeful attack on Consuela and her kidnapping of their four-year-old son, Cuauhtémoc. But his actions will determine whether Consuela and Cuauhtémoc live or die, and the fate of Mother Juana de la Cruz.
Goddess of Everything is a blood-curdling tale of the affection of one mother for her son and her son's struggle for truth, freedom, and love.
Excerpt
His mother wailed again. Nighttime darkness continued to descend, and the wind stayed its brutal course at Father’s funeral. Mother Juana hadn’t noticed the spirit of a man cloaked in light beside Gabriél. He wasn’t Gabriél’s father. He was more than a man; he was everything that Father was and more. Through the corner of his eyes, Gabriél saw the white-bearded old man. In many ways, in many forms, I will come. The words were close as heartbeats and breath. He knew if he turned and looked directly at him, the man would disappear. The light was intense, like rays of the sun. The old man had something to say.
Suddenly, unclean sounds went into Gabriél’s ears and chest—crackling and squealing voices rising from under the earth and into his body, trying to block out the lingering presence of the old man and his words. Like a god, the white-bearded man lifted his right hand, fingers spread. The noise went up from the ground into his palm, a mighty hand with powerful magic.
Gabriél’s mind became silent as a windless autumn night, magic making him still inside, just like he was when in his bedroom reading alone. The old man was strong and made what was bad cease. Even as the underworld racket stopped, the graveyard winds kept up their awful screams.
The quiet of the man and the moment wrapped strong and warm arms around Gabriél. Invisibility stood guard around the old man. Mother could not see him. No one could see him. He was there only for Gabriél. He bent down beside Gabriél and touched his shoulder. A crystal clear calm made the shrieking wind and the crying women and the priest’s strange prayers seem far, far away.
Mother’s red hair blew in the wind like it was on fire. It didn’t scare Gabriél because of the old man, his warm and solid hands steady on Gabriél’s shoulders. His kind eyes said he was ten thousand times ten-thousand-years old. His mother’s red hair and shrieking prayers no longer scared him.
Then the old man spoke, and through Gabriél’s mind sent a message, LISTEN... WHEN THE DAY GOES AWAY AND THE NIGHT COMES, REMEMBER I AM HERE. He touched Gabriél’s heart. LISTEN.
Gabriél’s mother abruptly glanced down at him. He looked into her eyes and knew she hadn’t heard the old man, but she had a squint in her eyes. Her eyes glowed red, and the old man’s hands did not move from Gabriél’s shoulders.
Big branches from the cottonwoods cast long moon shadows over the grave. Now they looked like skinny people scratching at each other, cloaking the old man. The wind picked up its screeching.
Gabriél’s heart pounded like stampeding horses.
Mother squeezed his hand. His fingers tangled together, tips burning with pain. Then she looked away and wailed more loudly than ever.
The old man continued, TELL NO ONE ABOUT ME. I WILL HELP YOU AS A BOY. I WILL HELP YOU AS A MAN. LISTEN. The old man motioned again to Gabriél’s heart and then touched between Gabriél’s eyes, the brow point.
The old man stopped and looked up.
Gabriél caught his mother’s gaze.
She’d seen the old man, pointed at him, and screeched like the evil winds.
Blistering dust and grit blinded Gabriél. He pulled his hand away from his mother and rubbed his eyes and tried to clear them, but when he looked again, squinting, he saw that the light of the old man had vanished.
His mother was wrapped in a cloud of dust. Out of the cloud came a coyote, foam curling from its mouth. It howled, and an instant later legions of dust devils took over the landscape and swallowed it in clouds of dust, trash, and tumbleweeds.
Mother reappeared beside him and picked him up. She screeched with a million hateful voices. His heart beat rapidly, fluttered like a flock of sparrows flying away. Catching his breath was hard.
“The night plays tricks,” his mother seethed, her breath hot and rank.
The winds suddenly ceased. Brown and gray clouds gave way to blackness that closed in and covered the full moon. Spirits of children rose out of their graves. They pointed at Gabriél and his mother. Their hands and fingers grew and reached to grab him, take him away under the earth.
Mother swept her black shawl over Gabriél. She whispered, “I will protect you, mijo.”
They escaped into the jet-black night.
About the Author:
Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D., is a psychologist and award-winning writer living in his native New Mexico, crafting visionary thrillers energized with trickster mischief and natural magic.
https://www.pauldeblassieiii.com/
https://www.facebook.com/pdeblassieiii
https://twitter.com/pdeblassieiii
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56373593-goddess-of-everything
March 16, 2021
A Bewitching Tuesday
Arts and Crafts Halloween Edition with Ellen Mint #PNR #ReverseHarem #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/MQu150E021X
Secrets of the Mermaid by Catherine Stine - Book Tour + Giveaway
https://www.jazzybookreviews.com/2021...
Release Day Blitz & #Giveaway ~ Claw (Coven of Desire, Book One) by Ellen Mint ~ Reverse Harem, Paranormal #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/c7mM50E01zV
Goddess of Everything [Book Tour with Excerpt] #bewitchingbooktours https://www.westveilpublishing.com/?p...
Book Tour: Secrets of the Mermaid The Keepers of Knowledge Book Six by Catherine Stine #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/ym5p50E016o
INTERVIEW WITH ELLEN MINT (CLAW: COVEN OF DESIRE)
#bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/1Xaj50E01cH
Author Interview- Goddess of Everything by Paul DeBlassie III #ParanormalThriller #AuthorInterview #bewitchingbooktours https://paranormalists.blogspot.com/2...
Claw Coven of Desire Book One by Ellen Mint - Reverse Harem, Paranormal - He’s not your typical werewolf-next-door. #bewitchingbooktours http://ow.ly/7q9m50E01xn
Review Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs
Wild Sign by Patricia BriggsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Wild Sign picks right up where the last book ends. I had to go back to the last book and do a quick flip through to refresh my memory.
I love Charles and Anna, they have such a great relationship, but in this world something always threatens that.
In Wild Sign they are tasked with searching for a group of off the grid people who built a settlement on pack land. They have disappeared without a trace and something ancient and evil is to blame. But how can they fight it when they don't even know what it is?
Wild Sign is filled with twists, turns, and revelations. We learn the truth about Bran's mate, Leah, and we almost learn who Sherwood Post really is. I have an idea or two. Waiting to see what is revealed in future books.
Every book is a piece of the puzzle in Brigg's worldbuilding. It's always a treat to see what is revealed.
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Release Day Blitz Claw by Ellen Mint #PNR #ReverseHarem
ClawCoven of Desire Book OneEllen MintGenre: Reverse Harem, ParanormalPublisher: Totally BoundDate of Publication: March 16thISBN: 978-1-83943-489-1ASIN: Number of pages: 308Word Count: 76,000Cover Artist: Erin Dameron-Hill
Tagline: He’s not your typical werewolf-next-door.
Book Description:
Layla didn’t count on a sex demon appearing in her living room. Nor did she expect to find she’s a witch, tasked with protecting the mortal realm. And now her friend, fellow nursing student and impossible crush could be a potential killer?
She’s silently lusted after Cal for a year, knowing a guy that hot, sweet, and kind wouldn’t look twice at her. All their flirting was innocent and went nowhere, until Ink—the incubus bound to her—ran into her life and bed. Next thing she knows, Cal’s growling at her while Ink flirts, and women are being ripped apart by wild animals. Couldn’t the murder monster mystery wait until after finals?
She wanted to be a nurse, not a paranormal investigator, but Layla has no choice. Apparently only witches can stop these creatures that she didn’t even know existed a month ago. But the deeper she digs, the more it looks like Cal’s deep in the middle of it all. How can she save her friend from the claws of a cult, keep her sex-craved demon happy and find a way to let both into her heart or bed?
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Everyone who buys a copy of Claw at First for Romance will receive the short story Retail Hell free at First For Romance.
Set between the events of Ink and Claw in the Coven of Desire series, Layla's workday from hell is interrupted by her personal sex demon.
Get it HERE: https://www.firstforromance.com/book/claw
Excerpt:
“Please,” I whispered, praying there was a single note of compassion remaining inside the animal.
The icy gaze darted behind me. “You almost fell,” he said, drawing me to find the stack of crates I’d nearly crashed onto.
I wished that reassured me, that I wasn’t still staring deep into the eyes of a potential crazed animal, but he didn’t release his hold on my face. Cal raised his other hand, the fingers extended as if he expected claws to be on them. The palm drifted closer, my heart thundering for fear of where it was heading. To pierce my ribcage? Pry out my heart? Rip off an arm?
When it settled on my hip, I felt a macabre sense of disappointment. Until Calvin, always sweet but distant Calvin, brushed the full pad of his palm over my ass. A deep rumble rolled from his chest, which kept rising higher.
“Let me leave,” I whispered.
That killed his growl, his head shooting up and the eyes opening in surprise. But as he circled his lips with his tongue—which I’d never noticed was so long before—Calvin flexed his hold on me.
Oh god! I stumbled backward, my hands flying to find anything to grab. One latched on to his forearm, the arm with the fingers attached to my face. I could dig my own claws in, see if that shook him off.
But I’d found his den, sussed out his secret. No chance he’d let me walk away now.
“Ah!” I gasped, my back striking the wall. A picture frame jabbed into me, but I wasn’t in a position to complain. Cal pressed closer, first almost shoving his chest into mine, then his hips. His hand remained clamped over my chin. I kept picturing it sliding down to my throat to cut off my air. But he didn’t move it even while leaning nearer until he grazed the edge of my jaw with his teeth.
Shit. My legs wouldn’t stop trembling, my body wanting to fall to the ground and scamper away. But not all of it. Even as I hung on to his arm, my fingers toyed with the hard muscle clinging to me. With every swipe of his hips, the undeniable surge in his pants grew.
“Layla.” Calvin whispered my name as though he recognized me from across the street. I turned to him and he plunged his famished mouth over mine. Inescapable heat pulsed through me, Cal’s lips a hard snarl aching to own me. But the longer he kissed me, the softer they became. Almost tender and gentle, he slipped his tongue into my mouth. I answered back with mine. My body hummed with anticipation, my mind pleading for more. For me to taste all of him.
Loss. It flooded my senses and I opened my eyes to watch Calvin break off the kiss. His hand slipped from my face, though the other remained cradling my ass. Slowly, he licked his lips, causing a smile to twist across them. But he shook it off and said in a ragged voice, “You can go.”
“What?” I lost all focus, my head whipping to the side to see he’d kissed me right next to the door. He’d brought me to the door.
Calvin pulled in a slow breath and his smile turned winsome. “You asked to leave.”
Yes. I needed to get out. He could be a murderer. Except he’d been here that night…literally chained up. He’d chained himself up? To keep others safe? My heart fluttered at the idea and Calvin slunk back. He swiped at his neck like it was tough for him to breathe after our kiss. It tugged the sweater down, revealing a handful of blond chest hair begging to be freed.
He’s a werewolf.
Well, nobody’s perfect.
I fisted his hair, tugging his lips to mine while flattening my body against his. Cal grabbed on to my shirt and lifted it. But I wouldn’t stop kissing him, my lips craving his, my hands needing to run the length of his terrain. I worked under his sweater and swept my palm up his stomach. Abs, a tuft of soft hair, and…
Cal grabbed my arms by the wrists and raised them above my head. Our kiss broke, leaving me staring across the narrow gap into his burning ice eyes. He pulled in a breath, straining the knit weave of his sweater across his flexing muscles.
Locking my wrists together in one palm, he yanked my shirt up to my elbows. Only that blur of cotton broke our stare. Electricity crackled in the space between us. I watched Cal pull in air in anticipation of a marathon.
He unleashed my wrists, letting them drop to my sides as my shirt flew into the circular staircase. The energy was building, every micro-shift in my body zapping a strike from me to him, or vice versa. I felt them not as pain, but a shiver across my skin that I’d never known before.
“Gonna show me the goods, wolfman?” I asked, placing a hand to my hip.
About the Author: Ellen Mint adores the adorkable heroes who charm with their shy smiles and heroines that pack a punch. She has a needy black lab named after Granny Weatherwax from Discworld. Sadly, her dog is more of a Magrat.
When she’s not writing imposing incubi or saucy aliens, she does silly things like make a tiny library full of her books. Her background is in genetics and she married a food scientist so the two of them nerd out over things like gut bacteria. She also loves gaming, particularly some of the bigger RPG titles. If you want to get her talking for hours, just bring up Dragon Age.
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