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#BookReview BREAK FROM YOU by Rebecca Green Gasper #YA

Break From You by Rebecca Green Gasper
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It's never easy to let go, nor to see what we don't want to see. Brooke Myers wants to believe she has the perfect relationship with Drew Brunson, the captain of the football team. She ignores the possessiveness and control and always forgave him when he pledged his love and said sweet things while apologizing. As often happens, emotional abuse escalates into physical abuse.

Before she can end the relationship, a fire breaks out in t...

#BookReview SUGAR'S DANCE by Katie Mettner

Sugar's Dance by Katie Mettner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Family drama, a romance, and suspense thrown in. Sugar's Dance is a sweet and uplifting story. Sugar's life was shattered ten years ago on an icy bridge when a semi struck her family car, killing her parents and dance partner. She struggles with survivor's guilt and grief. Meanwhile, her friends were kidnapped by a dangerous drug kingpin and the police stake out Sugar's house. Sugar has to find the key and the evidence to put the druglord a...

#BookReview Melissa Foster's Traces of Kara #drama

Traces of Kara by Melissa Foster
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Traces of Kara is a heart-rending, emotional and thrilling drama with the backdrop of horror.

All Kara ever wanted to do was to lead a normal life, go to nursing school, and get away from her cheating husband. But an overprotective mother, a sinister stalker, and secrets with deep roots combine to throw Kara into a shadowy nightmare of real and implanted memories.

The setting of an aging coal plant, sealed off tunnels and graveyards of outd...

She'll Go Anywhere - Hidden Under Her Heart (A Story of Abortion & Courage) Chapter 7 - Scene 1

Maryanne admired Lucas’ glass heart. The red and purple swirled in wisps and combined with white to create a kaleidoscope of colors. How did he know not to pressure her for sex? It wasn’t like she wanted to win the bet as much as to regain her self-esteem. The last breakup over vomiting in a car had shown her how little she’d been valued.Lucas packed the tent and slammed the tailgate of his Outback. He started the car and lowered the windows. “I love the ocean breeze, don’t you?”“I love every...

#CharacterInterview Rad Sanders from Mary Maddox's book TALION

Conrad (Rad) Sanders Demands Respect
Rad is the villain of my thriller TALION, but like most psychopaths he sees himself as the only one who matters. In the interview that follows, he takes issue with my decision to cut some of his story. Neither the interview nor the omitted scenes contain violence or extremely harsh language, but the novel does. It will scare and perhaps disturb you.
MARY: Thanks for agreeing to come, Rad.
RAD: I agree to nothing. I’m here to set the record straight. And tell...

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#GuestPost Top 5 Lessons from Bad Relationships by Bonnie Trachtenberg #author

The Top Five Lessons I Learned from My Bad Relationships

1. If you are always unsure if he cares for you, there’s probably good reason to worry. Now I’m not talking to the women out there who are irrationally insecure. I’m talking to women with normal to above average self-esteem, who just never know what their men are thinking or feeling with regards to their relationship. Maybe he’s stoic, the strong, silent type, but one thing I learned is that if a man can’t ever express his feelings in wo...

#BookChat Environmental Fiction: Trails in the Sand by P.C. Zick

Short synopsisTrails in the Sand follows environmental writer Caroline Carlisle as she reports on endangered sea turtles during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. As she delves into the story, she uncovers secrets about the past that threaten to destroy her family unless she can heal the hurts from a lifetime of lies.Her journey reveals the truth behind mysteries that have plagued her family for three generations.Lost journals, a fake tablecloth, and nesting sea turtles lead her to discover why...

#BookChat THE DOHMESTICS by Mohanalakshmi RajaKumar #womensfiction

Description:

Edna, Amira, and Noof are neighbors but that doesn't mean they know what happens behind closed doors or that they have anything in common with their hired help. 

Maria, Maya, and Lillie live in the same compound as their employers but that's where the similarities begin and end. There's never a dull moment for anyone in this desert emirate. 

The unending gossip and unrelenting competition may be business as usual for expatriate communities but the unspoken secrets threaten...

#BookChat Through the Crimson Mirror by Daniel Alexander #children #parenting

Computers have very quickly integrated themselves into our lives. We all know that we have to update the software now and again to make sure it runs optimally. When the latest anti-virus comes out, we rush off to the shops to buy it to make sure our computers stay clean. But, do we do the same with our minds? Do we ever take the time to clean out our mind and our beliefs? What my book is about, is our beliefs concerning our children: the most precious beings in the world to us.

My book is very...