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BOOK REVIEW: The Delphi Effect by Rysa Walker

The Delphi EffectAuthor: Rysa WalkerGenre: YA Paranormal Fantasy

Book Description:It’s never wise to talk to strangers…and that goes double when they’re dead. Unfortunately, seventeen-year-old Anna Morgan has no choice. Resting on a park bench, touching the turnstile at the Metro station—she never knows where she’ll encounter a ghost. These mental hitchhikers are the reason Anna has been tossed from one foster home and psychiatric institution to the next for most of her life.

When a chance touc...

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Sounds of War by Cindy Chen

Sounds of War
Author: Cindy Chen
Genre: YA Historical Fiction
Date Published: September 19, 2014

Book Description:
People were dying. Bodies were lying along the streets. Air raid sirens were about to go off at any moment. Nobody was shown any mercy. For Anna, life had always been about music. An aspiring pianist and composer, she studied at the renowned Leningrad Conservatoire under some of the greatest musicians to ever walk the face of the Earth. Her studies came to a halt, however, when Nazi...

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Hidden Truths by Kristin Coley

Hidden TruthsAuthor: Kristin ColeyGenre: YA Paranormal RomanceRelease Date: September 1st, 2016
Book Description:A missing boy...a girl haunted by answers.
Addie's kept her ability secret her entire life. When a local boy goes missing though she's forced to expose herself as she enlists the aid of a suspicious hero to chance a harrowing rescue.
Jake's determined to resist the crazy girl asking for help but can't when he realizes she knows more than she should. He's forced t...

Book Blast & Giveaway - Slave Queen by H.B. Moore

Slave QueenAuthor: H. B. Moore
Special Agent Omar Zagouri’s latest case is his most dangerous—and his most personal yet. The discovery of secret sixteenth-century letters unveils a plot between the sultan Suleyman and his chief wife, Roxelane, to change the course of the Ottoman Empire. A descendent of Roxelane, Zagouri learns he has an enemy whose revenge has been centuries in the making.

Targeted by an antiquities collector who’s also descended from a chief rival for the ancient throne, Zagou...

Book Blast & Giveaway - Pure of Heart by Auria Jourdain

Pure of Heart
Author: Auria Jourdain
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description:
A ghost child left to die in a French forest, Contesse Blanchefort seeks her long-buried past after her adoptive father dies at the Bastille. Embarking on a quest across England with a pagan woman and a rogue Gypsy, Contesse falls ill in London, and her companions are forced to seek help. With overwhelming compassion, physician’s apprentice Eric McEwan nurses Contesse back to health, but discovers that her exotic acc...

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Angelic Anarchy by J.P. Epperson

Angelic Anarchy
Author: J.P. Epperson
Genre: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Release Date: September 6th, 2016

Book Description:
Where there is goodness, evil is sure to follow. Where there is light, darkness is never far behind.

Belleeza isn’t the angel your parents told you about as a child. She’s a weapon. A warrior. But even warriors have their weaknesses—and even warriors can have their hearts broken. Betrayed by the only man she’s ever loved, Belleeza throws herself into an unusual mission t...

Blog Tour Spotlight - Touching Death by Becky Johnson

Touching Death
Author: Becky Johnson
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 209
Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Book Description:Rachel Angeletti knows things. She always has. With one touch she sees secrets, emotions, lies. Her gift helps her to be the best museum curator in Chicago. It also makes her personal relationships difficult.

Her life is complicated enough when a run in with her ex and an unanticipated vision sends her reeling. One touch and she sees death. One touch and she is thrown into the midst of ki...

Book Blast & Giveaway - Where the Heart Is by Jennie Marsland

Where the Heart Is
Author: Jennie Marsland
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description:
When Rochelle McShannon moves with her father from Morgan County, Georgia to the Yorkshire Dales, she thinks she’s leaving behind everything that matters to her. Her mother has passed away, her twin brother is going west to avoid the looming Civil War, and her family’s unpopular views on slavery and secession have destroyed her relationship with the man she hoped to marry. If returning to her father's child...

Blog Tour Promo & Giveaway - Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch by J.E. Hunter

Tales of a Redheaded Sea-Witch
(Black Depths #1)
Author: J.E. Hunter
Genre: YA Paranormal
Release Date: April 2014

Book Description:
Death, power, transformation....

When Nessa's dad dies, the last thing she's expecting is to lose everything else too. But when her hair suddenly turns electric red, and her estranged grandma turns up on her doorstep ready to haul her off to an isolated island, that's exactly what happens. In one day, Nessa losses her mother and her friends, and learns tha...

Book Blitz & Giveaway - Rimrider by L.A. Kelley

Rimrider
Author: L.A. Kelley
Genre: YA Space Opera
Release Date: July 30th, 2016

Book Description:
Teenager Jane Benedict is awakened by her father and ordered to memorize a mysterious code. Hours later, Mathias Benedict is dead and Jane and her brother, Will, are wards of United Earth Corporation. To evade the company's murderous clutches and uncover the meaning of her father’s last message, Jane leads Will on a desperate escape across the galaxy aboard the Freetrader smuggler ship, Solar Vor...