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A Touch of Ruin by Scarlett St. Clair (Hades & Persephone #2) Publication date: April 23rd 2020 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance Persephone’s relationship with Hades has gone public and the resulting media storm disrupts her normal life and threatens to expose her as the Goddess of Spring. Hades, God of the Dead, is burdened by a hellish past that everyone’s eager to expose in an effort to warn Persephone away. Things only get worse when a horrible tragedy leaves Persephone’s heart in ruin and Hades refusing to help. Desperate, she takes matters into her own hands, striking bargains with severe consequences. Faced with a side of Hades she never knew and crushing loss, Persephone wonders if she can truly become Hades’ queen. Goodreads / Amazon EXCERPT: Demetri must have felt her staring because he finally looked up from his tablet, the article he was reading reflected off his black-framed glasses. She noted the title. It was another piece about her. “Persephone. Plea...

Bay of Darkness The Kelly Society Book One by S.K. Andrews Genre: Paranormal Mystery Publisher: Wild Rose Press Date of Publication: October 2, 2019 ISBN: 1509227792 ASIN: B07WDL6HT6 Number of pages: 418 Word Count: 95,000 Cover Artist: Debbie Taylor To save the modern world, psychic Vivien Kelly channels an ancient Celtic life of treachery and murder—at the peril of her own soul. After witnessing her fiancé’s murder and almost dying herself, Vivien Kelly’s mission is to destroy Dagda—a Celtic God turned demon. When Vivien discovers she worshiped Dagda in an ancient life as Boudicca, the Celtic warrior queen, she’s compelled to the quaint Northern California town of Half Moon Bay. There Vivien finds Dagda’s creatures tormenting the locals—from a Fear Dorcha, to the Headless Horseman. The Kelly Society is then born—her own paranormal cleansing team and the race is on when people around her begin to die. While banishing a Banshee, Vivien meets Neal Harrington—a soul partne...

Letters to God by Krystal Doolittle Genre: Religious/Spiritual Date of Publication: March 13, 2020 ISBN: 9798612411468 ASIN: B08544CKH9 Number of pages: 120 Word Count: 37,413 Cover Artist: Krystal Doolittle What if God looked like you and me? Rowan MacAllister never realized that she had become stuck in a boring cycle in her life until one day everything comes crashing down. Her best friend insists that they go to a new local psychic shop as a way to break out of the rut she’d been stuck in. But Rowan finds herself receiving wise advice that she takes to heart. She should start writing letters to let out everything that had been bottled up for far too long. Penning a letter to God, she finds strange things happen the next day along with meeting an older woman named Mary. The two become fast friends and Mary seems to unknowingly address the letters that Rowan continues to write to God while they are apart. The coincidences become too much for Rowan who begins to won...

I am so excited that A ZERO WASTE LIFE IN THIRTY DAYS by Anita Vandyke is available now and that I get to share the news! If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author & Influencer Anita Vandyke, be sure to check out all the details below. This blitz also includes a giveaway for a Mermaid Straw and a copy of the eBook courtesy of Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post. About The Book: Title:   A ZERO WASTE LIFE IN THIRTY DAYS Author:  Anita Vandyke Pub. Date:  April 22, 2020 Publisher:  Apollo Publishers  Formats:  Paperback, eBook, audiobook Pages:  192 Find it:   Goodreads , Amazon , Audible , B&N ,  TBD , Bookshop.org A practical guide to improving your life--and your impact on the world--in thirty simple days by radically reducing waste without losing your lifestyle. Overwhelmed by clutter, anxious about your...

Shadow Magic Macabre Academy Book One by Sherry Soule ASIN: B0871P32M5 Release Date: May 1, 2020 Genre: Paranormal Mystery Subgenres: Paranormal Romance, Love Triangle, Academy Upper-YA, New Adult, and Adult Do you enjoy not-so-cozy paranormal mysteries, slow burn romances, and unconventional heroines? Then you'll love reading this new series by Sherry Soule. Welcome to Macabre Academy! Ghost summoning? No biggie. Raising the dead? Bring it on. Solving my sister’s sudden disappearance? A bit more complicated... I’m Serena LeStrange, a necromancer who prefers to hide her freakishly fabulous skills from others. Only my sister makes me feel less of a weirdo, so when she mysteriously vanishes from college, I enroll at Macabre Academy to start my own investigation. Except this is no ordinary school for the magically inclined, it’s home to all monsters—even the most dangerous ones. And after meeting an incredibly gorgeous vampire and a sinfully hot reaper, I find myself entangled...

The Crimson Inkwell The Luella Winthrop Trilogy Book One by Kenneth A. Baldwin Genre: Gaslamp Fantasy, Historical Fantasy Publisher: Eburnean Books Date of Publication: May 8th, 2019 ISBN: 1095674749 ASIN: B07Q76QYMW Number of pages: 277 Word Count: 97,000 Cover Artist: Vikncharlie A Gaslamp Fantasy Novel The Crimson Inkwell is a story about journalist Luella Winthrop. In her journey to become Dawnhurst-on-Severn's most acclaimed writer, she discovers that her city houses dark, magical secrets too uncomfortable to believe. When an enigmatic carnival worker offers her a pen that can turn fiction to fact, she quickly learns that tampering with the unknown can be intoxicating, lucrative, and dangerous. Magic exists where we cannot see.  It lives in unexplained phenomena, in attraction to strangers, in a pen and crimson inkwell, from a trunk, in a tent, at a fair, in the fog. I didn't believe in magic. Before he died, my father taught me the world was solid. Report...

Witch Tease Wysteria Hedge Haven Clan Book Three by Cindy Keen Reynders Genre: Paranormal Romance Publisher: Solstice Publishing Date of Publication: December 19, 2019 ISBN: 978`677131563 ASIN: 781677 131563 Number of pages: 272 Word Count: 70,000 Elizabeth, “Lizzie” Rose, high witch of the Wysteria Hedge Haven Clan, must enlist the assistance of her former lover, Kincaid McAllister, the famous Spirit Wulver, to save her coven from a banshee attack. As the Wysteria Hedge Haven Clan prepares to celebrate Mabon (autumn equinox) by holding a “Blessing of the Brooms” ceremony at the Royal Witch Arena, a banshee swarm attacks. While clan members are held captive, the banshee leader, Sorcha, barters with the Supreme Witch’s Council to bestow life to her group within the next 48 hours. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Rose, high witch of the Wysteria Hedge Haven Clan, has recently been running late to coven events. She arrives at the arena after the banshees’...

Life, A Bit More? Andrew Thomas Elder Genre: Self-Help/Motivational/Inspirational Writers Republic LLC Date of Publication:   October 4, 2019 Paperback - 9781646200740 Hardback -   9781646200764 Ebook -   9781646200757 Number of pages: 118 pages Word Count: 8,698 words Andrew Elder would not let his tragedy get him down. Instead, letting his experience be an inspiration to others not to lose hope and faith and love for one’s self and to keep that peace of mind that somewhere in people’s tragedies, there’s God that’s ready lift one up when the going gets the toughest. Andrew’s book of inspirational nuggets, Life, a Bit More? is even more proof of God’s graciousness when He uses people like Andrew to spread his love. Writers Republic          Amazon    About the Author: Andrew is a regular guy who had to relearn life as a double amputee at nineteen years of...