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July 15, 2025
The Beast’s Healer Blog Tour and Giveaway #Fantasy #Fairytale
Something stirs in the darkness.
And soon, lines blur where myth ends and danger begins.
The Beast’s Healer
The Hamlia Tales Trilogy Book 1
by Rae Lori
Genre: Fairytale Fantasy Romance
Something stirs in the darkness. And soon, linesblur where myth ends and danger begins.
Megalyn Hartwood has always known the forbidden forest’s rules: which plantsheal and which shadows kill. But when a child’s life hangs in the balance, shebreaks the ultimate taboo and ventures into the depths where no villager daresto tread.
There, she encounters him.
The legendary beast spoken of only in whispers. Ancient. Powerful. And far morecomplex than the monster of village tales.
Forced to his hidden lair deep in the forest’s heart, Meg discovers that somelegends hide deeper truths.
But before she can unravel the mystery of the beast who guards the ancientwoods, danger strikes from an unexpected source, threatening not only Meg’slife, but her quiet village as well…
Perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast inspired tales, forbidden romance,tense action scenes, and enchanted forests where nothing is quite what itseems.
Rae Lori is a multi-published, award-winning author and a geek girl atheart. She was first bitten by the writing bug at ten and never stopped lovingthe written word. Over a twenty-year-plus writing career, she has beenpublished with various zines, journals and publishing companies and taught newwriters the craft of novel writing in between her projects. She has won variousawards including an Honorable Mention in the 73rd Annual Writer’s DigestWriting Competition, the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Award Winner inWriting (Adult Nonfiction), and Best Romance Novella in SORMAG’s 2009 Reader’sChoice Awards.
Rae can usually be found with her head in the clouds daydreaming of hernext story. That is, when she isn’t gaming or watching her fave movies with herfellow geekazoid husband (it’s time for another Aliens rewatch!), crocheting,or has her nose in a book.
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July 13, 2025
Back Catalog Sunday – Blood And Shadows Bundle #Horror #Crime #Paranormal
Blood and Shadows Bundle
Volume 1 of the Shiver Series
In the shadows lurk the monsters, the killers and the supernatural. Some kill, some stalk, some haunt. All bring shivers and thrills.
A dark collection of horror, murder and blood. You have been warned!
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Featuring
The Watcher by A. L. Butcher
Unfair Play by Harambee K. Grey-Sun
The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe by Robert Jeschonek
A Reluctance of Blood by Rebecca M. Senese
Beholder by Harambee K. Grey-Sun
Echoes of a Song by A. L. Butcher
Two Fisted Nasty by Steve Vernon
Backtracker by Jason Koenig
Invasion of the Book Snatchers by Ryan M. Williams
Diary of a Maggot by Robert Jeschonek
Revenant by Steve Vernon
July 12, 2025
Fantasy #Shortfantasy #Horror #HistoricalFantasy
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Award-winning fantasy, horror, short stories, poetry and historical fantasy. Ebooks, paperback, hardback and audiobook editions.
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July 11, 2025
What is the Secret of Blossom Rise?
When a young nurse takes a job at an old military hospital she finds the answers to an old family question – what is the secret of Blossom Rise Hospital? Who is the long-dead man who walks the grounds?
#Ebook #Audiobook #Paranormal #Ghoststory
July 10, 2025
A Holiday for Homicide – Blog Tour #CozyMystery
A televised cooking competition puts Sherry, a successfulcooking competitor, in the spotlight,
especially when the final challenge callsfor catching a killer.
A Holiday ForHomicide
A Cook-Off Mystery #9
by Devon Delaney
Genre: Cozy Murder Mystery
A televised cooking competition puts Sherry in the spotlight,especially when the final challenge calls for catching a killer . . .
Despite being a seasoned competitor, nothing could have prepared Sherry Oliverifor the thrill of being chosen for a three-day cooking challenge on nationaltelevision. She’s dying to tell her friends, but she and everyone else involvedin the contest has been sworn to secrecy until it airs. Still, that’s notstopping someone from penning cryptic notes about the show for the whole townto read, which has the production crew on edge—right up until one of them isfound dead.
Determined to root out the killer, Sherry suspects the truth lies withwhoever’s behind the mysterious notes—which have now turned dark with menacingcomments on the murder and suggestions of buried secrets. Trying to unravel itall while focusing on her recipes, Sherry’s stopped dead in her tracks when thecook-off host drops a bombshell. With no time to spare, she’ll have to unearththe one missing ingredient that will ensure the killer’s cooked . . .
Includes recipes from Sherry’s kitchen!
Praise for the Cook-Off Mysteries:
“The Cook-Off Mystery series by Devon Delaney is a very tasty treat!” —CozyMystery Book Reviews
“This is a very fun and rollicking mystery that stays light-hearted even as thecase gets more complicated . . . Cooking, holiday celebrations, and movingfamily drama all make for the perfect escape.” —Kings River Life
“This book was gripping and hard to put down. It didn’tfeel like everything else you see out there, it felt very fresh. I reallyenjoyed this book!” – Netgalley Reviewer
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Devon Delaney is life-long resident of the Northeast andcurrently resides in coastal Connecticut. She is a wife, mother of three,grandmother of two and accomplished cooking contester. She taught computereducation and Lego Robotics for over ten years prior to pursuing writing. Alongthe way Devon has been handsomely rewarded for her recipe innovation over thelast twenty-plus years. Combining Devon’s beloved hobby of cooking contestingwith her enthusiasm for writing was inevitable.
When Devon is not preparing for her next cook-off, she maybe found pursuing her other hobbies, including playing competitive USTA leaguetennis, gardening, needlepointing, painting, jarring her produce, and hookingrugs. Her standard poodle, Rocket, is her pride and joy and keeps her on thepath of sanity.
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July 9, 2025
Project Threshold Series 1 – Blog Tour #ScienceFiction #Horror
Our world is a multiverse where monsters and entities crossover to threaten us.
Project Threshold protects humanity from darkness.
Project ThresholdSeries 1:
Wading Into Darkness
by Craig Crawford
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Most people don’t believe in monsters, assuming people arehallucinating or crazy. A secret organization knows we live in a multiverse.Sometimes the barriers between worlds opens and things slip into ours. Nastythings that prey on us.
This group is Project Threshold and it stands between us and the monsters.Direct Contact Teams wade in to contain or kill any threats to humanity.There’s a price, however, and unless these agents are smart and savvy enough,dying comes quick and without warning. And, sometimes dying is in the line ofduty is the better option.
Project Threshold wades in where others can’t or won’t. They have oneobjective: Protect humanity from darkness.
Wading into Darkness contains all stories from series one of the ProjectThreshold books.
Project Threshold:Team Berger: Division 1
In a multiverse where the walls are thin between ourworld and others, Project Threshold stands between humanity and monsterscrossing over to threaten us. Harris Berger and his team intervenes on ourbehalf. Death waits around every corner but dying isn’t the worst thing theyhave to endure. Berger wades in with his team: Sam, Billy, Jacks, Jessie, andtheir new recruit, Pendelhaven. Team Berger faces an unknown advancedcivilization, mimics loose on the streets of Chicago killing homeless people,dealing with the aftermath of witnessing awful things, mermaids in the Midwestand an apartment where people start committing suicide for no apparent reason.
Project Threshold:Team Talise: Division 2
Talise Randall leads Division-2, dropping in to protectus while trying to keep her own team safe. With minor psychic powers andlearning from Kali who’s even more powerful, Bodi and Milla complete theirranks. Team Talise goes head to head with an unstoppable entity, anotherworldly jealous boyfriend, a haunted museum, a Victorian home with muchmore than a ghost, and her team discovers what happens to all those lost socksfrom people’s dryers.
Project Threshold:Team Riker: Division A
In Alaska, allmanner of entities and monsters cross into our world from other dimensions andHannah Riker and her team are the gatekeepers. Riker has a personal score tosettle, hunting the monster that slaughtered her parents when she was a girl.Neville, Toddy and Melissa McCoy have her back as they follow in the wake ofbeings dispensing justice and marking their victims. They intervene on a resortwhere people disappear even during daylight, fend off a tribe of furryhumanoids claiming ownership of a valley, and they stumble upon an ancient,unkillable entity bent on the destruction of humanity.
Project Threshold:Finale
Greed releases something without compassion or care. Itssole purpose is to cleanse the Earth of humans. Starting in Canada, it destroyseveryone it crosses paths with, making its way to bigger settlements. Weaponswon’t kill it and the only group who might be able to save humanity is ProjectThreshold.
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Craig Crawford grew up reading all the time but it’swhen he discovered fantasy and science fiction he got to wondering whether hecould create his own stories. He spent the next decades writing andimproving his skills. He published two non-fiction indexes with Palladium Booksin 1994 and 1997. In 2008 he happened into an internship working with an editoron a novel and a novella. In 2019 he got interested in writing horror and gothis first fiction story published. Since then he’s published thirty short storieswith twenty-two different presses including a humorous novella. In 2023he published a novel length, dark sci-fi/horror serial in four parts thanks toRedCape Publishing. The next installment is releasing now.
He writes in fantasy, sci-fi, YA, horror, humor—whatever hisimagination gives him. You can learn more about his writing and whatmakes him tick at https://craiglcrawfordbooks.com.For his novel length serial you can find our more at https://projectthreshold.com. Histwitter account is: @CraigLCrawford
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July 8, 2025
The Fifth Strain – Book Blitz #YAFantasy #Fantasy
“This taut, entertaining tale mingles astonishingpowers with ordinary adolescence.”
—Kirkus (The Fourth Kinetic)
The Fifth Strain
Clairvoyants Book 2
by Brady Moore
Genre: YA Fantasy
There were four known types of Clairvoyants who had escapedfrom a laboratory, their memories wiped clean: Kinetics, Readers, Prophets, andAurals. But that was before they met 17-year-old Rion Grean. Since the momentRion discovered his telekinetic abilities, he knew his life would never beordinary. However, he didn’t anticipate the drastic changes that would followwhen his mother’s secrets were revealed, leading to their farewell.
On that day, Rion learned he wasn’t alone in possessingextraordinary powers and was introduced to PSYRIIN, a militaristic entitydetermined to annihilate his kind. With a new adversary emerging, Rion isconfronted with tough decisions: Should he search for his mother, or should heally with the Clairvoyants to rally the scattered few in a battle for theirsurvival? As hidden truths come to light and he uncovers a mysterious link to anew strain, Rion will soon understand the true meaning of fighting for family.
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The Fourth Kinetic
Clairvoyants Book1
In this world,there are four strains of clairvoyants: Kinetics who can move objects withtheir minds, Prophets who have involuntary visions of the future, Readers whocan delve into the innermost thoughts of others in an instant, and Aural whocan transfer their consciousness to control the bodies of others.
At just 17 years old, Rion Grean is a Kinetic with no knowledge that he is notalone in his abilities. His protective mother had kept them constantly moving,even going as far as refusing to tell Rion about his father whom he never met.However, when an accident separates them, Rion finds himself being pursued by acovert militaristic force that sees his kind as dangerous anomalies in society.Suddenly thrust into a world filled with different factions of Clairvoyants,Rion must navigate through alliances and betrayals to determine who he cantrust.
Despite his natural talents and intelligence, Rion has always struggled to makefriends and find purpose in life due to his sheltered upbringing. But as hefaces challenges outside of his comfort zone, he learns the true meaning offriendship and family. This is not a typical story of good versus evil; it is adeeply personal journey of self-discovery and the struggle to coexist in asociety that fears what it cannot understand.
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Brady Moore was born and raised in Charlotte, NorthCarolina. He began writing stories and drawing his own comic books at the ageof ten and never looked back. After graduating high school he attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro where he graduated with a Bachelor’sdegree in Media Studies. Heavily influenced by film and television, his writingincludes elements from multiple genres and multimedia styles. He currentlyresides in Charlotte, NC where he enjoys writing everything from poetry tomovie scripts. His ultimate goal is to see one of his works adapted for thescreen.
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July 5, 2025
Love Fantasy? Check out my books on Google Play
Like reading? Love #fantasy? Check out my books on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=A.+L.+Butcher&hl=en
Fantasy, horror, short stories, poetry – English and other language versions available.
July 2, 2025
What is the Secret of Blossom Rise?
When a young nurse takes a job at an old military hospital she finds the answers to an old family question – what is the secret of Blossom Rise Hospital? Who is the long-dead man who walks the grounds?
#Ebook #Audiobook #Paranormal #Ghoststory
June 29, 2025
Dare You Seek the Lost City of the Elves? #Fantasy #DarkFantasy
In a world of forbidden magic a group of outlaws seek a legend. Facing monsters, Witch-Hunters, hardship and unwelcome truths they must find what has been lost, and discover who they are.
18 rated for adult themes.
The Shining Citadel – the Light Beyond The Storm Chronicles Book II
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