#BookReview: Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here by Alli Vail

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Her best friend is missing, her career is a disaster, she’s stuck living with her parents, and now her heart isn’t beating.

Can Brooklyn Thomas confront her past to save her present?

Summer is off to a bad start and getting worse. Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she’s mostly dead. She can’t feel her heart beat and she’s disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failing at her high-paying marketing job. Not her crush, whom she keeps humiliating herself in front of. Not her parents, whose basement suite she’s stuck living in now that she can’t afford rent anymore. To top it all off, she’s hallucinating stars from all her favorite TV shows who want Brooklyn to pull herself together and face the truth about what happened to her career, her best friend, and her relationship with her brother.

As her past collides with her present in painful and unexpected ways, Brooklyn must decide if she’s strong enough to confront what haunts her and get a second chance at a real life—before mostly dead turns into actually dead.

Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here explores how women contort and minimize themselves to fit the roles society and family offer them, and the serious price they pay for doing so.

#BookReview: Lockdown (NYPD Negotiators #3) by @Saradriscoll @KensingtonBooks

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When a horrific school shooting turns into a hostage situation, only Gemma Capello, the NYPD’s most skilled negotiator, has a chance to save innocent lives and end the crisis.It’s every parent’s nightmare—getting a call during the school day from their teenager, huddled in a classroom as the sound of bullets echo in the background. When gunmen invade a Brooklyn school, that nightmare becomes a horrific reality.Talking a suspect into sending his hostages out alive is NYPD Detective Gemma Capello’s specialty. Alerted to a school shooting at her nephew’s high school, she is one of the first officers on-scene. Detective Sean Logan and the Apprehension Tactical Team arrive next and immediately enter the school to apprehend the two shooters, while Gemma remains outside to help students evacuate. But as time stretches on, and there is no word of her nephew, her fear builds that he is one of the lost.Instead of a quickly-resolved mass shooting, one of the two shooters holes up with a group of students and their teacher as hostages, and Gemma steps in to negotiate for their survival. Floors away and armed with only her wits and the sound of her voice to convince him, Gemma fights for control of the situation even as tactical leadership pressures her for a more aggressive strategy. But for Gemma, it’s not about a quick solution. It’s about moving heaven and earth to bring everyone in that classroom home. And she’ll do whatever it takes to achieve that goal.

#BookTour: Cayman Conundrum by Stacy Wilder @RABTBookTours #Giveaway

Liz Adams Mystery Series, Book 4

Cozy Mystery

Date Published: 06-28-2024

Publisher: Wild Hawk Press

 

Sun-kissed sands and sinister secrets. A honeymoon in paradise turns perilous in this riveting seaside mystery.

A tropical vacation transforms into a web of danger and deception when an author and his manuscript vanish. Is his thriller about money laundering in the Caribbean too close to the truth?

With the stakes high and time ticking, Private Investigator Liz Adams and her new husband, Brad, along with their truth-sniffing Labrador, Duke, partner with the local authorities to unravel a multitude of crimes. As they search for clues, the newlyweds explore the delights of the island, including a hunt for buried treasure.

Will they unearth the clues in time, or will the honeymoon end in heartbreak? Set against the backdrop of the stunning island of Grand Cayman, this cozy mystery will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.

#ReleaseBlitz: Dead Calm by Bill Runner @RABTBookTours

 

Axel Blaze Crime Action Thriller, Book 8

 

Action Thriller

Date Published: September 22, 2024

 

One man rises from the stillness, unleashing hell's fury. They call him Blaze.

 

Dead Calm takes readers into Blaze’s past as a US Army Ranger. In the harsh Afghan terrain, Captain Axel Blaze faces his toughest mission yet: honoring a dying friend’s plea to rescue his children from the Taliban's clutches.

Blaze infiltrates deep into enemy territory. He finds an ally in CIA Deputy Director Davis, whose daughter, Madison, has been taken hostage. As Blaze and his Rangers wreak hell on the Taliban, they uncover a drugs, arms and sex trafficking network with links to the Bulgarian mafia.

The hunt takes Blaze from the unforgiving Afghan terrain to the back alleys of Sofia, Bulgaria. Powerful people operating with impunity. Until they come in the crosshairs of a man called Blaze.

Page-turning thrillers in the lone ranger tradition of Jack Reacher, Mitch Rapp and The Gray Man novels. The fast-paced, brutal action in the Blaze series is attracting thriller readers worldwide.

#ReleaseBlitz: Inner Hero (The Missing State of You) by Alina Kina @RABTBookTours

 

Poetry, Self-Help

Date Published: September 20, 2024

 

 

We all have a hidden power within us. What is the key to unlocking this power?

This state of being in connection with ourselves and knowing exactly what we should be doing in each moment is natural to all of us, like breathing. We just need to remember how to access it.

Inner Hero: The Missing State of You is an interactive experience designed to awaken the hero within by reconnecting you with your innermost energies and intuition.

This inspiring illustrated collection of poems will take you on a journey to reconnect with the forgotten part of yourself and discover, in the process, that all the answers can be found within yourself. Each chapter, uniquely termed an "inner state of feeling" like Disillusionment, Leap of Faith, Love, Inner Hero, and more, is visually brought to life with beautiful images that resonate deeply with the themes explored in the poems. Every poem is followed by more in-depth reflections on the beauty of letting go, taking responsibility for your own growth, and connecting with the essence of who you truly are.

Inner Hero encourages you to interact with it by offering prompts to check in with yourself after each chapter. The way to read the book is to monitor how each poem, each message makes you feel and let something unexpected happen. These poems are about feeling between the lines and discovering something new but very natural to all of us as humans in the process.

Discover the power you were born with — it's waiting within the pages of poetry.

Touching upon her personal journey, Alina Kina shares an intuitive way of reprogramming ourselves and changing the algorithms of our lives. Remembering the essence of what it means to be living rather than following a set of predetermined answers. Restoring our natural ability to feel energies and grow in our levels of consciousness.

Your Inner Hero awaits—discover it now! Get your copy today and unlock the doors to personal growth and profound inner connection.