#BookBlitz: Take Me Home for Christmas by @TracyKSolheim @XpressoTours #Giveaway $25 Amazon gift card

Take Me Home for Christmas
Tracy Solheim
(Chances Inlet Contemporary Romance, #5)
Publication date: December 12th 2024
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Holiday, Romance

In the quaint coastal town of Chances Inlet, Christmas is a time for rekindling lost connections . . .

Elinor “Elle” McAlister is on the brink of a big-time promotion that will finally put her on equal footing with her overachieving siblings. The catch? She has to babysit a notoriously prickly war reporter who’s late delivering his memoir. As if that weren’t enough, her editor banishes them both to Elle’s hometown on the Carolina coast to get the job done. Spending the holidays in Chances Inlet might have been fine—if only she hadn’t wrecked the most important relationship in her life during her visit last Christmas.

Deputy Sheriff Hayden Lovell has known Elle was his person ever since she swiped his purple crayon back in kindergarten. Through every twist and setback, her steady friendship has been his anchor, especially after he returned from combat with wounds that run deep. But everything changed last New Year’s Eve when Elle surprised him with a kiss, stirring feelings he didn’t realize he had. Now that she’s back in town and keeping her distance, Hayden wonders if that moment meant as much to her as it did to him.

Chances Inlet has a knack for bringing people together. With Christmas around the corner, can Elle and Hayden rewrite their story before the holiday spirit fades? Join them in a heartwarming tale of love, friendship, and the magic of second chances in a town that knows how to celebrate Christmas like no other.

#BookReview: The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos by @MelissadelaCruz

Evan Saatchi can’t keep his eyes off his new co-worker, Dalisay Ramos. Newly arrived from Manila to lead their travel app’s Asia division, nothing matters more to Dalisay than tradition and family. When Evan asks her out, she soundly rejects him for his cheek. Evan learns from his Filipino friends that Dalisay expects more from potential suitors. If he wants a chance with her, he’s going to have to go through the Five Stages, the same courtship ritual that lovers in the Philippines have performed for generations. At first, Evan is skeptical—what, exactly, does “servitude” entail? And he has to sing?! But when Dalisay bets Evan that he doesn’t have the nerve to make it through the stages, the game is on. As Evan attempts to prove to Dalisay that he can win her heart—and the bet—Dalisay is driven to distraction by Evan’s sexy labors, and soon their “courtship” turns into a sizzling secret. But when modern love and family expectations collide, Dalisay and Evan must find a way to carry a rich history into a shared future.

#BookReview: Dark and Shallow Lies by @stageandpage

A teen girl disappears from her small town deep in the bayou, where magic festers beneath the surface of the swamp like water rot, in this chilling debut supernatural thriller for fans of Natasha Preston, Karen McManus, and Rory Power.

La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide.

This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World--and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier.

Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something - her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.

When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou - a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history - Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. Suddenly, she doesn't know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent--and La Cachette's dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.

#BookBlitz: Inked in Blood and Memory by @MsAllisonIvy @XpressoTours #Giveaway $20 e-gift card for Barnes & Noble

Inked in Blood and Memory
Allison Ivy
Publication date: December 3rd 2024
Genres: Horror, LGBTQ+, New Adult

Recluse Sophie Vanguard’s winter cabin retreat turns ominous when blue flowers mysteriously appear. They’re everywhere. On her front porch, in kitchen cabinets, and even on her pillow. It isn’t long before chilling whispers echo in the halls, and her journal repeats seven unsettling entries.

Enter the bloodied and beautifully eccentric Ly Thi Ren. Though Ren seems familiar, Sophie refuses to believe the girl’s insistence that they are trapped inside a book.

In a land of fiction, truth and lies blur together, clear decisions are marred by doubt, and shared family trauma lurks just below the surface.

Can Ren and Sophie make it out alive? Or will they end up nothing more than words inked in blood and memory?

With elements of gothic horror, splatterpunk, romance, and fantasy, Inked in Blood and Memory is a self-aware LGBTQ+ horror that wraps its clutches around the reader and doesn’t let go.

#BookBlitz: The Mockingbird and the Moon: A Dark Academia Romantasy by Antonia Montclair @RRBookTours1

If you like romantasy with dark academia vibes, we have a book rec for you! You can read The Mockingbird and the Moon now on Kindle Unlimited!

The Mockingbird and the Moon: A Dark Academia Romantasy

Publication Date: October 31, 2024

Genre: Romantasy/ Dark Academia

-Love Triangle
-Dark Academia
-Enemies to Lovers
-Academic Rivals
-Magical University
-Romantasy

When two rival academics are forced to compete against each other for a reward that could change their lives forever in an elite magical academy, they must choose between their loyalties or their growing temptations in this dark academia fantasy perfect for fans of BABEL, A STUDY IN DROWNING and THE NIGHT CIRCUS.

Vivienne Meira is a Silvertongue, a rare user of magic so powerful she can convince people to do anything - theoretically that is, if only she could speak Silver. When she is accepted to the prestigious Linguistics program at Hattenstowe University, she must face the dark legacy her family left behind: a magical disease so deadly it makes all infected perish into madness. Vivienne knows that Rowena, her mother’s former protege and the head of the Linguistics department, possesses a rare artifact that could cure her mother of the disease permanently, but she protects it as she would her own life. And Vivienne has competition: Rowena’s only other student, a Silvertongue prodigy named Julian, as powerful and talented as he is cold and distant. Vivienne must infiltrate the program to track down the cure, but she is challenged by a cunning Rowena and ruthless Julian at every turn. When Vivienne begins to suspect that Julian may have the same goal of finding a cure, they must compete against each other and their animosity turns into a full-blown duel of wits.

But as Vivienne’s magic grows stronger, she discovers more about Julian’s past, blurring the lines of rivalry into temptation. Soon, secrets about her family, Julian, and Rowena come to light and make clear the danger Vivienne is in. She must decide whether it really is everyone for themselves, or if two Silvertongues are better than one.