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Wednesday, August 26, 2020

COVER REVEAL: The Setup by Meghan Quinn

THE SETUP COVER REVEAL!!

The Setup by Meghan Quinn
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Releasing: September 10, 2020

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I’ve fallen victim to a heinous act.

An act so vile, so downright dirty, that I’m not sure as a twenty-year-old man I'll ever recover. Brace yourself, because what I’m about to tell you might have you gasping in secondhand horror.

Ready? Here it goes . . .

I’ve recently become the pawn of a meddling mom.

Yes . . . A MEDDLING MOM--who's been trying to set me up all summer.

Now, I understand it’s not a crime for a mother to want her child to fall in love, but when she makes it her relentless MISSION, the heinous act should be classified as a misdemeanor at least.

Of course, my mom, the evil matriarch in the devil’s leggings, made her final stab at finding a girl for me days before I went back to college.

And I hate to admit it, but she saved a doozy for last.

A titan in black skinny jeans.

A boss of nonchalance.

And a girl who would not only turn my life upside down, but do it while juggling a soccer ball, looking effortlessly gorgeous around campus, and is one hundred percent against relationships. Of any sort.

Thanks, Mom.

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USA Today Bestselling Author, wife, adoptive mother, and peanut butter lover. Author of romantic comedies and contemporary romance, Meghan Quinn brings readers the perfect combination of heart, humor, and heat in every book.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

REVIEW: The Butcher's Daughter by Wendy Corsi Staub


The Butcher’s Daughter by Wendy Corsi Staub

Foundlings Trilogy (Book 3)

August 25, 2020

Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense





New York Times bestselling author Wendy Corsi Staub is the master of psychological suspense. In her latest thriller, an investigative genealogist digs for her own biological roots, well aware that some secrets are better left buried.

Investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw solves clients’ genetic puzzles, while hers remains shrouded in mystery. Now she suspects that the key to her birth parents’ identities lies in an unexpected connection to a stranger who’s hired her to find his long-lost daughter. Bracing herself for a shocking truth, Amelia is blindsided by a deadly one.

NYPD Detective Stockton Barnes had walked away from his only child for her own good. He’ll lay down his life to protect her if he and Amelia can find out where—and who—she is. But someone has beat them to it, and she has a lethal score to settle.

Amelia and Stockton’s entangled roots have unearthed a femme fatale whose family tree holds one of history’s most notorious killers. And the apple never falls far…


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I have enjoyed several Wendy Corsi Staub books over the years. I wish I had realized this was part of a series but I didn't until I started it. It didn't seem completely necessary to read the first two books in the Foundlings Trilogy but there were a few things that I felt in the dark over... so my recommendation would be that you read the first two books to get the full experience from this final story. Now, this final book, The Butcher's Daughter goes back and forth between two timelines. We alternate between present day and 1968. Now if you enjou history, I don't but still, you'll know this was a very contentious time in the American history. We have a very tumultuous time of the Vietnam and Civil Rights era... we weren't just battling for the rights of African Americans (as we still are unfortunately) but for the rights as females... as women. The Butcher's Daughter really connects the social injusts of the 60s. Staub seamlessly blends and connects the two timelines.

I was glad I was reading a print copy of this and not listening to an audiobook since there was a lot of characters to keep track of. I really fell for those southern ladies in 1968... Melody and Honeybee were great. Stockton and Amelia are they two lead characters in the 2017 timeline. Their character development is the best and I really enjoyed their relationship. Gypsy Colt is the connection. This isn't exactly a "who dun it" story but a mystery into the how’s and why’s... some of my favorite mysteries. Gypsy was only a child in 68 and we get to see the development of the character over the time and into 2017. Really this area is the best and worst of the book. There was so many characters that I did feel slightly lost at times and confused. I really think I could have fixed that by reading the first two books. However, this is still a great story without those first books. You just have a lot of characters tossed at you at once and little time to get to know them. The best part is the way Straub weaves these characters together making me gasp a bit (which is no easy feat these days).

The plot was so excellently put together. Once I got to those last several pages, I rapidly finished. This is one of those stories that you get answers to your questions step by step. However, you won't see the overall picture until that very last piece is found and placed squarely where it goes, and then... que musical 'ahhhhh' in the background... there it is! I had my own thoughts along the way, after all, it's partly the reason I read these books. It's like playing Clue in my mind. I might have had a few of the cards lined up but I wasn't quite seeing the entire picture until Wendy Corsi Straub laid it all out!

Thank you to William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers for sending an advanced copy of The Butcher's Daughter. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that... my opinions.



 

Little Girl Lost

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From New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub comes a gripping novel of psychological suspense, as a young foundling’s path to her biological parents leads to a killer with a chilling agenda

MAY, 1968

On a murky pre-dawn Mother’s Day, sinister secrets play out miles apart in New York City. In Harlem, a church janitor finds an innocent newborn in a basket. In Brooklyn, an elusive serial killer prowls slumbering families, leaving a trail of blood and a twisted calling card. Cloaked in lies, these seemingly unrelated lives—and deaths—are destined to intersect on a distant, blood-soaked day.

OCTOBER, 1987

Reeling from shocking personal discoveries, two strangers navigate a world where nothing is as it seems. Amelia Crenshaw embarks on a search to discover the truth about the birth mother who abandoned her, never suspecting she’s on a collision course with a killer. Detective Stockton Barnes, a brash young NYPD detective, trails a missing millionaire whose disappearance is rooted in a nightmare that began twenty years ago.

The past returns with a brutal vengeance as a masked predator picks off victims whose fates intertwine with a notorious murder spree solved back in ‘68—or was it?


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New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub is the master of psychological suspense. Here, she delves into the twisted mind of The Angler, who lures his human prey the way he catches fish. Sometimes, he gets one worth keeping… for a little while…

No Such Thing as Coincidence…

Staring into his frightened blue eyes, investigative genealogist Amelia Crenshaw Haines vows to help this silent little boy who is unable—or unwilling—to communicate his past. Though her own roots remain shrouded in mystery, she relies on tangible DNA evidence to help fellow foundlings uncover theirs . . . until a remarkable twist of fate presents a stranger bearing an eerily familiar childhood souvenir.

NYPD Missing Persons Detective Stockton Barnes has spent his career searching for other people’s lost loved ones and outrunning a youthful misstep. Now a chance encounter with a key player from that fateful night leads him on a desperate quest to locate the one woman he’s ever regretted leaving—unless a savage killer finds her first.

As Amelia and Barnes uncover intertwining truths—and lies—the real horror emerges not in crimes already committed, but in evil yet to come . . .



 

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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

New York Times bestseller Wendy Corsi Staub is the award-winning author of more than ninety novels, best known for the single title psychological suspense novels she writes under her own name. Those books and the women’s fiction she writes under the pseudonym Wendy Markham have also appeared on the USA Today, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Bookscan bestseller lists. 

 Wendy’s current releases, LITTLE GIRL LOST, DEAD SILENCE, and THE BUTCHER’S DAUGHTER comprise her fifth suspense trilogy for HarperCollins/William Morrow. To date, there are three titles in her Lily Dale traditional mystery series: NINE LIVES; SOMETHING BURIED, SOMETHING BLUE, and DEAD OF WINTER.

Her novel HELLO, IT’S ME was a recent Hallmark television movie starring Kellie Martin. Her short story “Cat Got Your Tongue” appeared in R.L. Stine’s MWA middle grade anthology SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (HarperCollins). Her short story “The Elephant in the Room” appears in Nasty Woman Press’s inaugural anthology SHATTERING GLASS.
A three-time finalist for the Simon and Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, she’s won an RWA Rita Award, an RT Award for Career Achievement in Suspense, the 2007 RWA-NYC Golden Apple Award for Lifetime Achievement, and five WLA Washington Irving Prizes for Fiction.

She previously published a dozen adult suspense novels with Kensington Books and the critically-acclaimed young adult paranormal series “Lily Dale” (Walker/Bloomsbury). Earlier in her career, she published a broad range of genres under her own name and pseudonyms, and was a co-author/ghostwriter for several celebrities.

Raised in Dunkirk, NY, Wendy graduated from SUNY Fredonia and launched a publishing career in New York City. She was Associate Editor at Silhouette Books before selling her first novel in 1992. Married with two young adult sons, she lives in the NYC suburbs. An active supporter of the American Cancer Society, she was a featured speaker at Northern Westchester’s 2015 Relay for Life and 2012 National Spokesperson for the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. She has fostered for various animal rescue organizations.


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RELEASE DAY: The Wedding Date Disaster by Avery Flynn



THE WEDDING DATE DISASTER

By Avery Flynn

Release: August 25, 2020





 

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I can’t believe I have to go home to Nebraska for my sister’s wedding. I’m gonna need a wingman and a whole lot of vodka for this level of family interaction. At least my bestie agreed he’d man up and help. Too bad he had to catch a different flight than me. Then his plane got delayed. And finally—because bad things always happen in threes—instead of my best friend, his evil twin strolls out of the airport.



If you looked up doesn’t-deserve-to-be-that-confident, way-too-hot-for-his-own-good billionaire in the dictionary, you’d find a picture of Will Holt. He’s awful. Horrible. The worst—even if his butt looks phenomenal in those jeans.



Ten times worse? My buffer was supposed to be there to keep me away from the million and one family events. But Satan’s spawn just grins and signs us up for every. Single. Thing.

Fine. “Cutthroat” Scrabble? I’m in. I can’t wait to take this guy down a notch.



But somewhere between Pictionary and the teasing glint in his eyes, our bickering starts to feel like more than just a game…


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The Wedding Date Disaster by Avery Flynn was one of the funniest enemies-to-lovers mixed with fake relationship ever! Hadley is living a lie. Her life isn’t quite as amazing as she’s made it out to her family… her apartment is small and cramped, her job isn’t as important as she’s made it out, and, worst of all… she’s single. Returning home for a wedding, Hadley decides her bestie, Will, will be her date and pretend boyfriend for the time being… unfortunately, he doesn’t show. Standing in for Web, is Will, his evil twin… according to Hadley. I didn’t find him evil at all, in fact! I thought he was a bit charming with his quick-wit and fondness for getting under Hadley’s skin.

Avery Flynn sure knows how to execute a romantic comedy. She had me laughing hysterically, several times! Hadley’s family was fun and they really brought this other layer to the story, giving it this well-rounded feel. Not too funny and definitely not too serious. Avery Flynn continues to shock me with the way she brings incredibly unique stories with fun and quirky characters! Don’t miss out on this Disaster of a Wedding that turns into a true shot at love with the last person Hadley or Will was expecting!


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling romance author Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. Avery was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to write about smartass alpha heroes who are great with a quip and relatable heroines who are feisty, fierce and fantastic.



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