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The Private Investigation Duet by Aidèe Jaimes is LIVE & she’s sent over an excerpt and we’re having a giveaway!

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EROTIC SUSPENSE ROMANCE ALERT!!! 😀 Aidèe Jaimes’ latest book release (actually the whole duet!!) is LIVE!! No need to wait on a cliffhanger ending, ’cause you can jump right into #2. She’s sponsoring today’s newsletter and celebrating her release with an excerpt AND she’s giving away an e-book set of the duet to a lucky commenter here.

And guess what? One of my (our) greatest book-buds, Nay, has already read it and SHE LOVES IT! Nay and I have similar taste in books, so I’m excited about her personal recommendation. read more

Reader Recommendations – Our Favorite Cozy Mysteries

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READER RECOMMENDATIONS REQUEST!! Tasha LOVES “Cozy Mysteries” and is looking for more:

Tasha: …Anyone have any good cozy mysteries to rec. to put on my list? …I’ve been itching to read this genre again.

Maryse: I don’t know any cozy mysteries at all!! Maybe the Teagarden series by Charlaine Harris? I don’t know how cozy that one is… but I’m all ears. I’ll turn it into a list. 😀 P.S. Okay I just checked and yep! It’s a cozy mystery series too.

Tasha: … I enjoy books like read more

Book Review – Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia

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Everything You Want Me to Be: A Novel
Highly recommended by my two book twins (we’re actually book triplets) ’cause they knew this one would be right up my alley, combining TWO genres that I love (a thriller/mystery & a forbidden love story), and it was good!!!

Amy: Everything You Want Me to Be? GAH! That book bruised my heart left its mark on me. …FEELS!!!

Tasha J: Amy, I finished Everything You Want Me to Be and it was fantastic! All consuming, don’t wanna come up for air, 5 Stars! I was on the verge of messaging my rage to u on GR towards the end. Totally thought I had it worked out a couple times. Lol …gave me all the feels and mystery and thrills read more

Terri Blackstock – If I Run Series Reading Order

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These book covers haunt me, and I just know these books will, too. And book #3 was just released, so that means the trilogy is complete!!! Bring on the cliffhangers! We’re safe. 😉
About book #1:

Casey Cox’s DNA is all over the crime scene. There’s no use talking to police; they’ve failed her abysmally before. She has to flee before she’s arrested . . . or worse. The truth doesn’t matter anymore.
But what is the truth? That’s the question haunting Dylan Roberts, the war-weary veteran hired to find Casey. PTSD has marked him damaged goods, but bringing Casey back can redeem him. Though the crime scene seems to tell the whole story, details of the murder aren’t adding up.
Casey Cox doesn’t fit the profile of a killer. But are Dylan’s skewed perceptions keeping him from being objective? If she isn’t guilty, why did she run?
Unraveling her past and the evidence that condemns her will take more time than he has, but as Dylan’s damaged soul intersects with hers, he is faced with two choices: the girl who occupies his every thought is a psychopathic killer . . . or a selfless hero. And the truth could be the most deadly weapon yet. read more

Denise Grover Swank – Rose Gardner Mystery Series

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Here’s a nice long, fun-sounding “mystery romance” series to sink in to! She has “visions” and decides to create a “bucket list” of 28 things to do before the visions come true. AND! She has a sexy new neighbor. 😉 I like those! LOL! Plus… this series just had a brand new release, and a few of our fellow readers are hooked on it!

Jacee: I love the Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes series by Denise Grover Swank. It’s actually a mystery series. Rose Gardner is quirky and hilarious. read more