Chasing Eva by Camellia Hart – Book Spotlight

  
Chasing Eva

By Camellia Hart

Genre: Romance, Contemporary

 

Author Camellia Hart’s debut contemporary romance novel about a man and a woman whose lives are about to get sizzling hot…
After living through her share of disloyal relationships, Evangeline Avery will be damned if she lets another man cheat her. A beautiful and confident woman, Eva is the owner of an interior design firm at the brink of collapse. She swears to bring her company back to its past glory, even if it involves sweet talking the one man who caused this turmoil in the first place – Clive Stanton.

Notorious playboy Clive Stanton is a powerful businessman and a formidable enemy of many. He doesn’t do love, or at least not until he meets her again, fifteen years after he saw her last. Eva, his crush from teenage years, the one that got away, is back in his world and he is determined to do anything to make her his.

Will passion and lust bring them together or conflict and the unforgettable scars from their pasts forever tear them apart?

 

Author Bio

  
Camellia Hart, a techie turned author of romance, lives in San Francisco with her husband, the love of her life. Other than writing her next romance novel, her hobbies include traveling, lazing on a beach with a good read, watching movies with happy endings while gorging on endless buckets of popcorn, red wine, and champagne truffles.
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/camelliahartbooks 

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/HartCamellia

Website: http://www.camelliahart.com

AMAZON: http://amzn.to/1V9xav6 

AMAZON UK: http://amzn.to/1ROAxBZ 

KOBO: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/chasing-eva 

GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/camelliahartbooks

IBOOKS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/chasing-eva/id1097559228?ls=1&mt=11

 

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The Old World – By the Hands of Men Book #1 by Roy M. Griffis

  
Overview

Lieutenant Robert Fitzgerald has managed to retain his sanity, his humanity, and his honor during the hell of WWI’s trench warfare. Charlotte Braninov fled the shifting storm of the impending Russian Revolution for the less-threatening world of field camp medicine, serving as a nurse in the most hopeless of fronts. Their friendship creates a sanctuary both could cling to in the most desperate of times. Historical fiction about life, loss, and love, By the Hands of Men explores the power that lies within each of us to harm – or to heal – all those we touch. 

Review

Charlotte is a nurse in WWI. She experiences all the tragedy and the horrors of war. And then her “knight”, as she likes to refer to him, helps her through a horrible experience.  Their love grows….until….

I love the time period of this story. I have not read many novels set in WWI so, this was a real treat. I enjoyed reading  about the hospital and the aid station. The struggles of the men and the women to overcome all obstacles to save a life are really amazing to read and the author did a fabulous job expressing this. 

Anna is a strong woman character and I love those. She is hard working, even though she is a Russian aristocrat. She and Robert have a remarkable connection right from the start. Then something…and I will not reveal a spoiler… happens and leaves them estranged.  I cannot wait to read the second book in this series. I must know how everything turns out. 

There are a few places in the story where I wanted to know more. There should have been more. Then there are places the author expounds and it is not relevant to the story. However, the ending is perfect. A great lead in to the next in the series. 

I received this novel from the author for a honest review. 

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Gravedigger by Michael-Isreal Jarvis – BOOKSPOTLIGHT 

 
Spade and Sorcery as Gravedigger Hits the Shelves
Booktrope Publishing releases Gravedigger by Michael-Israel Jarvis 

Gravedigger, a fantasy novel by Great Yarmouth based author Michael-Israel Jarvis, will be published by Booktrope on the 31st of October, becoming available for purchase through numerous online booksellers. Gravedigger will be available in paperback and e-book formats.

Gravedigger has previously been released through Amazon by Michael-Israel Jarvis, prior to his acceptance into international new model publisher Booktrope, who are a growing publishing community based in Seattle WA. Michael-Israel lives and works in Norfolk, England, and will be publishing further novels through Booktrope in coming months.

 

Blurb:

Dead or alive. Good or evil. Hero or fugitive.

Valo needs a specific solution to a grave problem. The human Claimfold and prigon Torzsi draw apart. War is promised in the West. Worst of all, the magi of Nagyevo are meddling with the dead.

Perin is an apprentice Gravedigger: uneducated, unwanted, unsure. He may be the answer Valo needs, if he doesn’t get killed before he works out what’s going on. But of course there’s the chance that fate hasn’t called him after all. The gods are nameless and silent and the best laid plans have a way of going badly wrong.

Enter the spade and sorcery world of Valo.

Gravedigger subverts the expectations of that oldest of foes in fantasy, the dead that walk, in a fast-paced adventure through a world of culture, intrigue, magic and blood. 

Endorsements:

“His storytelling is impeccable. I have no doubt Gravedigger only scratches the surface of what he has in store for us.” —Tom Barczak, author of the Prophecy of the Evarun series of fantasy novels.

“Masterful world-building from a rising talent – Perin is the most iconic fantasy protagonist since Bilbo Baggins.” – J. G. Clay, author of Tales of Blood and Sulphur 

 

Additional Information

  
Michael-Israel Jarvis blogs at http://www.michaelisraeljarvis.com where it is possible to find more information on his books. He is an alumnus of the University of Northampton, where he received a First in Creative Writing.

More information on Booktrope’s Team Publishing model is available at http://www.booktrope.com.

For review copies and author interview requests, please contact the author’s book manager, Dane Cobain, on dane.cobain@booktrope.com or (+44) 7885 587738.

 

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Once Upon a Lie by Michael French BOOK SPOTLIGHT 

  

Once Upon A LieBy Michael French

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Once Upon a Lie is about two strangers who become unlikely friends, only to unintentionally put each other’s life in jeopardy. Jaleel Robeson, a gifted, eighteen year-old black man, falsely accused of murdering his father in a small Texas town, is on the run. He assumes a new identity in 1980s Los Angeles as a successful student on his way to college. Alexandra Baten, a restless sixteen year old while girl, lives in a privileged Toluca Lake family but feels trapped by her parents’ values. One weekend, she rides her bike into a run down neighborhood, meeting a young black man selling lemonade. Thus begins a friendship between opposites, at least on the surface, but they learn they have more in common than they imagine. Told from each character’s point of view in alternating chapters, we become involved in a gripping tale of two Americas where discontent and violence always lurk under the surface. When they erupt, no one is safe. Once Upon a Lie is both a family drama and a crime drama, as well as an exploration of interracial love, mother-daughter relationships, and redemption through courage.

 

Author Bio

  
 

Michael R. French graduated from Stanford University where he was an English major, focusing on creative writing, and studied under Wallace Stegner. He received a Master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He later served in the United States Army before marrying Patricia Goodkind, an educator and entrepreneur, and starting a family. In addition to publishing over twenty titles, including award-winning young adult fiction, adult fiction, biographies ad self-help books, he has written or co-written a half-dozen screenplays, including Intersection, which has won awards in over twenty film festivals. He has also had a long business career in real estate, living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His passions include travel, collecting rare books, and hanging with friends and family. He describes his worst traits as impatience and saying “no” too quickly; his best are curiosity, taking risks, and learning from failure.

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelRFrenchAuthor
Twitter: twitter.com/mfrenchauthor

Website: http://www.michaelrfrench.com

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Michael-French/e/B001ITYVES 
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27181442-once-upon-a-lie

 

Connect with the novels two main characters online

 

Alex Baten

Facebook: http://bit.ly/Alexbaten

Twitter: http://bit.ly/AlexBatenTW

 

Jaleel Robeson

Facebook: http://bit.ly/JaleelRobeson

Twitter: http://bit.ly/JaleelRobesonTW

 

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Once Upon a Lie by Michael French- BOOK SPOTLIGHT 

  

Once Upon A LieBy Michael French

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

 

Once Upon a Lie is about two strangers who become unlikely friends, only to unintentionally put each other’s life in jeopardy. Jaleel Robeson, a gifted, eighteen year-old black man, falsely accused of murdering his father in a small Texas town, is on the run. He assumes a new identity in 1980s Los Angeles as a successful student on his way to college. Alexandra Baten, a restless sixteen year old while girl, lives in a privileged Toluca Lake family but feels trapped by her parents’ values. One weekend, she rides her bike into a run down neighborhood, meeting a young black man selling lemonade. Thus begins a friendship between opposites, at least on the surface, but they learn they have more in common than they imagine. Told from each character’s point of view in alternating chapters, we become involved in a gripping tale of two Americas where discontent and violence always lurk under the surface. When they erupt, no one is safe. Once Upon a Lie is both a family drama and a crime drama, as well as an exploration of interracial love, mother-daughter relationships, and redemption through courage.

 

Author Bio

   
 

Michael R. French graduated from Stanford University where he was an English major, focusing on creative writing, and studied under Wallace Stegner. He received a Master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He later served in the United States Army before marrying Patricia Goodkind, an educator and entrepreneur, and starting a family. In addition to publishing over twenty titles, including award-winning young adult fiction, adult fiction, biographies ad self-help books, he has written or co-written a half-dozen screenplays, including Intersection, which has won awards in over twenty film festivals. He has also had a long business career in real estate, living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His passions include travel, collecting rare books, and hanging with friends and family. He describes his worst traits as impatience and saying “no” too quickly; his best are curiosity, taking risks, and learning from failure.

 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MichaelRFrenchAuthor

Twitter: twitter.com/mfrenchauthor

Website: http://www.michaelrfrench.com

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Michael-French/e/B001ITYVES 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27181442-once-upon-a-lie

 Connect with the novels two main characters online

Alex Baten

Facebook: http://bit.ly/Alexbaten

Twitter: http://bit.ly/AlexBatenTW

 

Jaleel Robeson

Facebook: http://bit.ly/JaleelRobeson

Twitter: http://bit.ly/JaleelRobesonTW

 

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Wake Me Up by Justin Bog 

   


Wake Me Up

By Justin Bog

Genre: Literary Fiction, Crime, Family Saga, LGBT

A FATHER IS HAUNTED BY HIS PAST — HIS WIFE LIVES HER LIFE IN A RIGID SHELL — THEIR SON, UNTETHERED, DISCOVERS THE SECRET THEY SHARE WITH DEEPIKA, A VISITOR TO THEIR TOWN.  

“I see all of these people. They’re living and breathing and acting on their basest impulses. I lay in a coma. They live. I hover over all of them, all at once. I can see my body, motionless, wired up, adrift. And I can find out why this happened. This is my story and I won’t remember any of it when—if—I wake up. But I’ll try to remember—I’ll try damn hard.” 

Middleton , MONTANA—OCTOBER 2004—AN ELECTION YEAR

A small college town’s populace is tied, complicitly, to the brutal attack of a teenage boy by four of his classmates. Soon, heated rumors of a possible hate crime surface. Injustice is a hungry beast.

While Chris Bullet remains unresponsive in a coma, his skull shattered, he floats above dire circumstance. In this phantom state, compelled to witness his past once more, the family’s darkest secrets, hidden over generations, will be aired.

 Review

Chris is lying in a hospital bed in a coma because of a hate crime. In this strange state, he has some vivid experiences that bring on many changes.

This is a very serious subject and the author handled it exceptionally well. Chris is beaten by his peers because they think he is gay.  

This multi-layered tale takes the reader on an non stoppable, emotional ride. From the very start the story is intense and it stays that way till the very end. The characters are diverse and keep the emotion of the novel in high swing. 

Do not miss this astounding read!

I received this novel for a honest review. 

Author Bio

  

 A member of ITW: International Thriller Writers group, Justin Bog lives in the Pacific Northwest with his two long coat German shepherds, Zippy and Kipling. He is the author of the Suspense Magazine Award-winning collection, Sandcastle and Other Stories: The Complete Edition, and Hark: A Christmas Collection. Find Justin at http://www.justinbog.com and on Facebook at Justin Bog.

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustinBog 

On Amazon: http://amzn.to/1SwsfUv 

On B&N: http://bit.ly/1PE9fkf 

On Goodreads: http://bit.ly/20KuQLi

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Haight Ashbury layout 

Haight Ashbury is a famous area in San Francisco known for the 60’s Hippy movement. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix lhas homes on these streets. The whole area was an amazing place to visit. If you look at these pictures of the stuff in the shop windows, you will understand!  I wanted to do this layout psychedelic. I found the greatest paper at Hobby Lobby. It is tie dyed and it is glitter….love glitter…I am sure the pictures do not do the paper justice. This is also my first attempt at pocket scrapbooking and I am Hooked!!! I love it!!  

    
 
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Tales of Blood and Sulphur by J.G. Clay – Book Spotlight

  
 

Biography

  

 J.G Clay is definitely a Man of Horror. There can be no doubt. Putting aside the reverence he has for the horror greats, such as King, Barker, Herbert, Carpenter, Romero and Argento, there is another fact that defines his claim for the title of the ‘Duke of Spook’. He was born on Halloween night. By a quirk fate, it was also a full moon that night. Co-incidence?

Here at Clay Towers, we don’t believe in coincidences.

The 41 year old hails from the Midlands in the United Kingdom, is married with one step child and two dogs that bear a strong resemblance to Ewoks. Beyond the page and the written word, he is music mad and can hold down a tune on a bass guitar pretty well. He is an avid reader and also has an enduring love of British sci-fi, from the pages of the ‘2000A.D’ comic to the televised wanderings of Gallifrey’s most famous physician. Clay is also a long-time fan of the mighty Birmingham City Football Club and endures a lot of flak from his friends for it.

 

Blurb 

Eleven Tales steeped in Blood and reeking of Sulphur 

J.G Clay takes you on a journey through the voids of Reality and into dark places where demons, mutants and inter-dimensional creatures taunt, taint and corrupt Humanity. Survival is not guaranteed, sanity is not assured and death lurks in every corner. These are the Tales of Blood and Sulphur: Apocalypse Minor; eleven twisted tales of terror and mayhem…… 

There are cracks in the skin of Reality. Some are microscopic, others are as wide as a four-lane motorway. As the fault lines increase and widen, the door to our world shines like a beacon in the darkness, a warm and inviting sight to others beyond our understanding. When They cross over into our realm, The Tales begin…… 

A gambler taking one last desperate throw of the dice. A struggling writer making an unholy alliance. An eternal being fighting to stay alive in the financial capital of India. A man burdened with a terrible town secret. The Law Enforcers who must never cry. The End of Days live and direct from the rural heartland of England. 

The blood is warm, the sulphur is burning, the tales will be told, the Apocalypse Minor is imminent! 

Links 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jgclay1973

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JGClay1

Website: http://www.jgclayhorror.com/

Available from:

AMAZON

Kindle US : http://amzn.to/1TX8Jhu

Paperback US: http://amzn.to/1CZpm7F

                         Kindle UK: http://amzn.to/1RYqLlM

Paperback UK: http://amzn.to/1KoFNKP

 

Nook (Barnes & Noble): http://bit.ly/1CUUYMd

 

And Apple iBooks

 

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House of Echoes by Brendan Duffy

  
Overview

Ben and Caroline Tierney and their two young boys are hoping to start over. Ben has hit a dead end with his new novel, Caroline has lost her banking job, and eight-year-old Charlie is being bullied at his Manhattan school.

When Ben inherits land in the village of Swannhaven, in a remote corner of upstate New York, the Tierneys believe it’s just the break they need, and they leave behind all they know to restore a sprawling estate. But as Ben uncovers Swannhaven’s chilling secrets and Charlie ventures deeper into the surrounding forest, strange things begin to happen. The Tierneys realize that their new home isn’t the fresh start they needed . . . and that the village’s haunting saga is far from over.

House of Echoes is a novel that shows how sometimes the ties that bind us are the only things that can keep us whole. 

Review

Ben and Caroline are starting over with an old house in upstate New York. The plan is to restore this house and have an Inn for travelers. This old estate holds more secrets and mysteries than they plan on. 

This is unique and twisted tale. The history of the area, the history of the house, Charlie’s adventures, all of this envelopes the reader and takes hold. Are you reading a ghost story, a history story or a horror story. The author spectacularly weaves a tale full of anxiety and tension. I literally had to pause several times to take a breath. I had no idea where this story was headed. The anticipation built throughout the novel is brilliant.  

I enjoyed the setting of the house and grounds. I wanted so badly to see a picture of the house just to see if it matched what I envisioned. The characters are, I hate to use the word unique again, but they are…unique. The only reason I am not giving this a 5 star rating is the son, Charlie.  His dialogue and interactions are not consistent. One minute he almost acts too adult and the next too childish. 

I am looking forward to more from this author. If you need a thriller to keep you up at night…..THIS IS IT!!

I received this novel from Netgalley for a honest review 

  

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Mercy Row Retribution by Harry Hallman



  


Overview

While serving as a pilot during the Vietnam War, Gerry Amato—the grandson of Jacob Byrne, the head of a powerful North Philadelphia Irish crime family—seizes the opportunity to create a lucrative marijuana smuggling operation. It’s 1967, and under the secrecy of a classified military operation, and with the assistance of a Marseille mob that owns plantations in Cambodia, he is able to send tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana to Philadelphia every month. His grandfather’s criminal enterprise distributes the drug to a population that has developed an insatiable appetite for the marijuana. 

A rival Paris gang tries to force Amato to buy their product, which triggers war between the Byrne family and the Paris mob. From the steamy jungles of Vietnam and Cambodia to the streets of Saigon, Paris and Philadelphia, the ruthless actions of the Paris mob threaten to destroy the Byrne family. Gerry Amato orchestrates a merciless campaign of retribution against his foes in order to save himself and his family. 

In part two of Mercy Row Retribution—the third book in the Byrne family saga—it is April 1975 and South Vietnam is about to fall to the North Vietnamese communists. Gerry Amato fears that the communists will take revenge on the population, especially the children—many of whom are Amerasian—at an orphanage he supported and volunteered at during his time as a pilot. He orchestrates a rescue mission to retrieve the children and bring them to the United States. This takes him and his team into harm’s way in Thailand, across Cambodia and into war-torn Vietnam and back. The fates of 75 children and 30 adults rest squarely on Gerry’s shoulders. 

Review

This is a fast paced read! From Vietnam to the gang life of Philadelphia, it never stops! 

I love a read where I learn something. The parts set in Vietnam really hooked me. The drug trade and the big business of the underworld gangs taught me more than I needed to know! 

However, the story is a little disjointed and did not flow as well in some places Also, the dialogue is stilted. 

But, the story keeps you interested and very intrigued! 

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