#BookBlitz: Carved From Wood by Brendan O’Meara @cutfstone @XpressoTours $25 Amazon gift card

Carved From Wood
Brendan O’Meara
(Crafting Humanity, #2)
Publication date: June 6th 2024
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult

James and his team head South after witnessing the BlankZone decimate the city of Midway. Their self-ascribed mission is to explore the most dangerous place on the planet – the new BlankZone border in the Southern Federation.

While conspiracies drive the narrative in the North, James and his team set out to learn about the Federation’s mysterious aggressors. Jump back into the adventure as James and his friends discover new families, build allies, and come face to face with the enemy threatening their existence. Secrets, lies, and manipulation are exposed as James gets closer than he ever imagined to their greatest threat.

#CoverReveal: In the Light of a Crystal Dawn by Cary Ash @RRBookTours1

We are thrilled to present the cover for In the Light of a Crystal Dawn by Cary Ash. Pre-order today! Stay tuned for an excerpt reveal!

In the Light of a Crystal Dawn (The Raya Sage Chronicles Book 1) 

  Expected Publication Date: December 19, 2024 

  Genre: Dark Fantasy Romance 

  There's a darkness in her, an ancient power that Demons and Angels alike are drawn to, and a mysterious blue-eyed stranger who is either the light in the shadows of her mind, or the instrument of her destruction. 

 When twenty-six-year-old criminal attorney, Raya Sage, is stopped on the street by a fortune teller who declares her next birthday the day Raya would become the end of the world, it seems like just one of those crazy things that happens to people in downtown Austin, Texas. But when the woman seizes, and then disappears on the ride to the hospital, Raya can't shake the lingering creepiness factor, and is haunted by the encounter for the months that follow. Flash forward a few months, to her birthday, to one of the biggest verdicts of her career, and the moment she sees her first Demon. It's as if the day she turned twenty-seven, a veil is lifted. She can see them and they can see her, and they all want her dead. That's when a mysterious blue-eyed stranger, who calls himself Marcus, saves her life, and whisks her away to a world, filled with Nephilim and Demons, a world he claims is where she belongs. Where he is an Overseer, a king of sorts, who leads brave warriors who protect humanity from all those things that go bump in the night. He declares Raya is one of the most special of their kind. And her crystal blue eyes are not birthmarks, as she was told from a young age, but are the mark of a rare Crystal Seer. As Raya tries to adapt and understand her new life, and a world where the Nephilim kingdom shadows and protects humanity, she grapples with the strange familiarity and intense attraction she feels with Marcus, that feels as if it stretches beyond time, that he claims he cannot explain. Or is it simply that he chooses not to explain? Nothing she will soon discover is as it seems, including her. For there is a darkness in her, an ancient power that Demons and Angels alike are drawn to. Raya soon comes to fear what she believes Marcus already knows—that she might truly be the end of the world if she doesn't fight her way to the light. And that the connection he shares with her is as dangerous to the Nephilim as it is to all of humanity. 

  The Light in the Crystal Dawn, the first book in the Raya Sage Chronicles, introduces you to a world filled with the magic of Angels, and the darkness of the monsters they hunt, where secrets and lies, and a passionate forbidden romance has world altering consequences. Perfect for fans of The Serpent in the Wings of Night and A Court of Thorns and Roses.

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#BookReview: Masquerade by @OOSangoyomi @ForgeReads

ABOUT THIS BOOK:

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future.

Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the the warrior king of Yorùbáland. Already shunned as social pariahs, living conditions for Òdòdó and the other women in her blacksmith guild grow even worse under Yorùbá rule.

Then Òdòdó is abducted. She is whisked across the Sahara to the capital city of Ṣàngótẹ̀, where she is shocked to discover that her kidnapper is none other than the vagrant who had visited her guild just days prior. But now that he is swathed in riches rather than rags, Òdòdó realizes he is not a vagrant at all; he is the warrior king, and he has chosen her to be his wife.

In a sudden change of fortune, Òdòdó soars to the very heights of society. But after a lifetime of subjugation, the power that saturates this world of battle and political savvy becomes too enticing to resist. As tensions with rival states grow, revealing elaborate schemes and enemies hidden in plain sight, Òdòdó must defy the cruel king she has been forced to wed by re-forging the shaky loyalties of the court in her favor, or risk losing everything—including her life.

Loosely based on the myth of Persephone, O.O. Sangoyomi’s Masquerade takes you on a journey of epic power struggles and political intrigue that turn an entire region on its head.

#BookBlitz: Making Up Stories by Susan Myhre Hayes @RABTBookTours

 

Historical Fiction

Date Published: August 28, 2024

Publisher: Universum Press

 

All families have their secrets. How far will they go to keep them hidden?

 

Savannah Schaeffer believed she was protecting her daughter by keeping the dark truths of their family’s secrets. Now, facing her imminent mortality, Savannah realizes her efforts may have caused more harm than good. With little time to waste, she finds a way to work around her inability to speak the truth. She prepares a scavenger hunt to reveal the secrets of her past that she had withheld from her daughter, Chloe.

The scavenger hunt will lead Chloe to two explosive journals—her great-grandmother’s and her grandfather’s—to reveal how intergenerational trauma impacted Savannah’s life and why she kept it secret. Chloe also has plans for the final week of her mother's life. She has promised to honor her mother's wish for a peaceful passing.

A palliative care physician, Chloe is ready from a medical standpoint but feels unprepared personally. She has called off her engagement at her mother's request and is now second-guessing her decision. She also wants to understand her mother's choice never to marry.

 

Making Up Stories: A Novel tells the story of family secrets and explores a mother's and daughter's desire to break free from intergenerational trauma. It's a story about their love for each other and the sacrifices they're willing to make for each other. Complex characters and situations raise profound, sometimes unanswerable questions about family, life's gray areas, and the promise of hope.

#ReleaseBlitz for The Rocker's Muse by Penelope Ward @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Rocker's Muse

Author: Penelope Ward

Genre: Standalone Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Rockstar/15-Year Age Gap/Small Town

Found Family/Slow Burn/Forbidden

Release Date: August 26, 2024

BLURB

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE novel…

No one but me knew why I was actually in the California desert that day.

Nestled deep within the desolate, rocky area was a recording studio.

When a door suddenly opened, a man mistook me for someone he was supposed to be interviewing for a job.

The next thing I knew, I was whisked inside.

The position? An assistant on the upcoming tour for one of America’s most famous rock bands.

Pretty exciting opportunity for a twenty-two-year-old, just out of college.

Not surprisingly, I bombed the interview.

When I ended up mistakenly walking into the men’s room on my way out, I struck up a conversation with a stranger—not realizing it was the lead singer, Tristan Daltrey.

He seemed to like the fact that I had no idea who he was, that I saw him as a normal person.

That night, I got a call offering me the job.

So began my complicated story with Tristan.

Millions of women loved him.

Yet for some reason, after the shows, he only wanted to hang out with me.

Late-night talks. Casual dinners in his hotel room.

I wasn’t supposed to be fraternizing with the band’s frontman.

Despite our fifteen-year age difference, Tristan and I had a connection.

But I had a secret.

One that would eventually lead to my leaving the tour.

And one that would lead Tristan and the band straight to the small town where I came from.