Happy Halloween everyone! There’s no blog today because it’s my husband’s birthday and our anniversary. We’ve been out and about all day, and now we’re settling in for a zombie movie marathon. Check back tomorrow for all the good stuff.
In the meantime, enjoy some pretty pix.
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A family secret has been revealed.
During a siege on the Foster House, Alexis is locked in the attic of her family’s mansion with her boyfriend, District Attorney Josh Hampton. After reading from a long-lost book, Alexis’ legacy is revealed. Her ancestors were witches, and Alexis is the last of her line.
A Knight will learn his true purpose.
Ex-special ops Captain Brenton Young learns his final mission had been a set-up. Orders were changed at the last minute from an observe-only mission to a retrieval mission that lead to Brenton making a gut-wrenching choice. There was no way to win. Now, he has a chance to truly right the wrongs and take his rightful place beside the other Knights that protect Alexis from evil.
An empathic law student must train.
Alexis must learn how to use all of her abilities now that they have been revealed to her. Her training won’t be easy. It could very well kill her.
The Foster House
Knight, you must save your energy. You will need it. Your friends may be lost to you, but you must fight the darkness within. Tristan poured his family’s evil into you and your friend over there. Deep down, you know what your mission has always been. It was never to serve Tristan. Think, and use the powers within you. Remember your history. Remember your true nature, your true mission.
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Sue and Celeste are taking us back to Talcott House where young ladies are trained and brought up to be the perfect little brides to their Papas. This is the 4th book in the series, and they can all be read as standalones. The 4 women are all friends and they are all referenced in each other’s books, but you aren’t going to be lost if the first one of these books you pick up is Papa’s Captive.
Lord Caldwell has been courting his beloved Rosie for quite some time. They are betrothed, but she’s nervous about setting a wedding date. When he doesn’t show up to see her in some time, Rosie is very worried that her hesitation has driven him away. It doesn’t help that she already has a secret that makes her worry that her betrothed would abandon her if he found out. It’s a terrible secret.
On the day that two of the other girls at Talcott house start poking at her because Lord Caldwell hasn’t been there for a while, all of Rosie’s anxiety pops up and she ends up smacking Lettie and rolling around on the floor, fighting with her. But, just as she’s about to be punished, Lord Caldwell shows up. The two of them are going to go out walking through the gardens, but Lord Caldwell has other plans. He gives a gift to Garland so that she’s distracted and then he spirits Rosie away to Gretna Green to get married. You see, back in the day, England had very strict regulations concerning getting married. But Scotland, you see, did not. Gretna Green was the first Scottish town over the border and so many, many people eloped there. Luckily for Lord and Lady Caldwell, Gretna Green was a quick ride away from the familial castle in Scotland, so after the 2 day trip to Gretna Green and a quick marriage, they were able to spend their first night as a married couple in their own bed. But of course, nothing is ever all that easy, now is it?
I like Rosie. She’s sweet and loving. She also deals with a lot of anxiety, and I can totally relate to that one. And, while she works really hard at trying to be a good girl and a proper lady, I think that she definitely has some fire in there. I mean, she tried to punch one of the other girls and threatened to punch Garland. And by the way, I totally think that Garland was trying to get with Lord Caldwell. I would’ve wanted to punch her too. Lord Caldwell seemed a little flighty at times, but that started to calm down, and I liked him a lot.
The secret about Rosie’s father wasn’t what I was expecting it to be, I mean, I did expect something criminal, but not that particular thing. I expected something more gruesome, I think.
Lord Caldwell’s cousin is a raging bitch. Maybe she would benefit by a few trips over someone’s knee with a belt and a whole lot of time sitting in a naughty chair or in the corner. Or, you know, being bricked up in a wall. You choose.
OK, that’s all I have to say about this one. Go check it out, along with all the other books. Happy reading!
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TITLE: Papa’s Captive (Little Ladies of Talcott House, Book 4)
AUTHORS: Sue Lyndon & Celeste Jones
RELEASE DATE: October 30, 2018
His castle. His rules.
His precious little captive.
Rosie isn’t your typical reluctant bride. She has secrets. Lots of them. If her betrothed, Lord Caldwell, learns the truth about her dark past, it could spell ruin and heartbreak.
Lord Caldwell is a man who takes what he wants. Despite Rosie’s hesitation, he whisks her away to Gretna Green and his castle on the Scottish border.
As his wife, she quickly discovers she’s subject to his rules and discipline. And Lord Caldwell can be very, very firm.
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Papa’s Gift: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D19LBXR/
Oh, ducklings, my sweet and precious ducklings, Natasha Knight has taken us on a roller coaster in Taken. One word of warning before I proceed, Taken is part of a duet, so it ends in a cliffie. The second part will be out in 2 weeks, so it’s not like Natasha is making us wait for a long time for the resolution. So, if you are interested in this one but you don’t like cliffies, wait a couple more weeks. Now, on to the review.
The Willows and the Scarfonis have a centuries-old relationship. That’s not a good thing here. For centuries, the Willows have always had quadruplet daughters and the Scarfonis have had sons. It used to be that they had 4 sons, but now they only have 3. Well, they still have 4 sons, but one son in each generation dies. Anyhow, once every generation, when the Willow daughters turn 21, the Scarfoni sons go and reap one of the daughters. They choose one, and keep her for 3 years, each brother getting their year with her, from oldest to youngest. The 3 sisters who don’t get chosen go on with their lives, get married, and one of them has quadruplet daughters, and the cycle begins again. The Willow Girl, the one that the Scarfonis choose, doesn’t always fare well. Their life expectancy after their 3 years is rather short, with a number of them committing suicide. There is one who seemed to survive her 3 years of service well, and that is Helena, the great-aunt of this generation’s Willow daughters.
Helena is also the name of one of the current generation of daughters. She actually looks like her great-aunt Helena. She’s dark to her sisters’ light. They are golden dolls, but Helena has dark hair, with a silver stripe. Ever since her 16th birthday, when her mother told her and her sisters what was happening, Helena has hoped that she wouldn’t be the one chosen. In fact, she went and got rid of her virginity, just so that she could knock herself out of the running.
Sebastian, Ethan, and Gregory as this generation’s Scarfoni sons. Along with Lucinda, who is Ethan and Gregory’s mother and Sebastian’s step-mother, they have come to the library at the Willow estate where the 4 women are standing in transparent shifts and on blocks so that they can be chosen. Helena has had to be bound and gagged while she is standing there with her shift that has a smear of blood on it, marking her non-virginal state. Sebastian is the one who gets to choose which of the 4 women standing in front of him is to be this generation’s Willow Girl, and by all rights, it should be one of the golden girls, but that would make our story really short now, wouldn’t it? Of course, Helena is the one that Sebastian wants.
There’s a lot going on in this book. I don’t know if I like Sebastian. I mean, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. That’s OK, that’s how Helena feels about him too. She likes parts of him and she likes what he makes her feel, but she really basically just hates him. He’s told her that he wants to break her, she’s told him that he might have her body but can’t have her soul. There are things going on with Sebastian that we don’t understand or have access to, as of yet. I hope we find them in the next book. I’m interested in them. Helena, I like her a lot. She’s strong and fragile, broken and whole, all at the same time. She has to keep being rebellious because that’s the only way that she can be, the only way she can survive. Ethan and Lucinda deserve to burn in hellfire and lava, or to be cast into the center of a sun. I hate them, a lot. Gregory is… an unknown. I’m looking forward to finding out more about him too.
Aunt Helena’s ring, OMG, I love her ring, and especially love how she got it. But yeah, I agree, Auntie Helena didn’t come back all that sane. But, you gotta wonder, what exactly happened to her to make her do what she did? It had to have been bad.
I’m kind of thinking that maybe Sebastian’s mom didn’t commit suicide, maybe she was helped along by someone near and dear to her. That person seems like they would do that to me.
And fuck, that ending. Ugh.
OK, that’s all I have to say about this one. I can’t wait for the next one to come out. I may not survive the wait. Happy reading!
Series: Dark Legacy Duet #1
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Well, Follow an Author 2018 is over, and I’ve loved being a part of it. I got to learn more about a new author and read new books. Don’t forget that I’m giving away the first book of the Windy Springs series on my FB page so take advantage of that.
So today, we’re talking about The Knowing Child, the last of the Windy Springs books. This one is 3 years after the last book. Evie is now 3 and just as sweet as can be. She also now has a little brother, named Fallon. Keisha and Rogan are still going strong, with a pretty good relationship, and are happily parenting their children. But not everything is happy and sunny in their world. Keisha is now Knowing, and she’s dealing with having horrible headaches and extreme anxiety. She’s always had problems with anxiety, which, considering her past, I would be more surprised if she wasn’t fighting anxiety, but it’s worse now, and when she hears voices because of the Knowing, it’s even harder. But, it’s not until she fractures her collarbone and Captain Dash comes to spend time with her while Rogan is at work, that things start to change.
We really learned a lot about Dash in this book, and it really explains why Captain Dash is the way that he is. I think his story really helped Keisha, and I hope that it helped people reading it too, since it was really important and incredibly moving. I like when we get to follow a couple and get to see what comes after the happily ever after, and that’s what we get to do here. It’s pretty awesome. I like seeing how Keisha and Rogan’s relationship has grown and matured and how the characters have grown and matured. And can I just say, I hate Evie’s pediatrician? My son had serious problems with ear infections when he was little, and his doc was more concerned about his health than Evie’s doc was and he didn’t see my son nearly as often. I hope we get to see more of this world.
Dash and Diana. Wow, isn’t that just… something? Diana is nasty and I hate her. And she’s rotten to Layla too, which is even worse. Layla is so awesome and so sweet.
OK, that’s all I have to say about this. Go check them out. Happy reading!
As the last day I’m doing Foster an Author this year, I am doing a giveaway for In the Presence of Knowing over on my FB page. It’s running until 8 pm EDT 10/29, so go check it out!
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A Heartbreaking Struggle…
Two strangers are thrown together through insurmountable tragedy.
Since his family disintegrated a decade ago, Jake has kept his heart safely ensconced within the protective walls he’s erected. Determined to live out his life alone and free of the burden of love,Jake’s world is turned upside down when the grief of a woman he hardly knows calls him to step out of his comfort zone. Once Marnie enters the picture, he tries not to notice how broken, how pitiful…and how beautiful she is. Jake is torn between doing the right thing for himself….and doing the right thing.
Devastated by loss after loss, Marnie is left a shell of her former self. After losing her home in a fire and numbed by yet another heartbreaking tragedy, she is unable to communicate or even function on her own. Marnie finds she must place her trust in a quirky stranger and his three-legged dog. Desperate to reach out to the only stability in her life – Jake – but paralyzed by pain, she struggles to pick up the shattered pieces of hope. Marnie wonders if she will ever learn to live – or love – again.
One year. One apartment. Two strangers, each wrapped in their own personal turmoil.
Can Jake and Marnie overcome the obstacles before them and find love despite the odds?
Happy Halloween! OK, OK, it’s 4 days early, but I won’t tell if you don’t tell. And hopefully, the Daddies in Scary Daddy won’t be too upset about it either. Because we all know that would be so, so bad, right?
So, we open on Lindy and Rowan, 2 besties who are sharing a house in a neighborhood with a strict HOA. That means that the head of the HOA, Clay, has already told them that they can’t have their Halloween Hello Kitty up in their yard, because it’s against the rules, which they would’ve known if they had read the manual, which they didn’t. That is making it hard for them to get into the Halloween spirit, which really sucks, as it’s their favorite holiday. But they really, really want to put Hello Kitty up just for Halloween night and the trick-or-treaters. So, they turn off their favorite movie, Hocus Pocus, and might I just add one of my favorite Halloween movies, and go to talk to Clay.
When they get to the house, Clay’s partner Jon opens the door and seems attracted to Lindy, who swears she feels him grab her ass, even though he’s way out of arm reach. Clay turns the ladies down, which means Rowan and Lindy, at Rowan’s instigation, are going to do something about it. Something that may involve Halloween night, rotten duck eggs, and toilet paper.
However, Clay and Jon are onto the ladies and they know that Rowan and Lindy are going to do something about it, which means it’s going to be Clay’s great pleasure to deal with Rowan and Jon’s to deal with Lindy. Of course, our naughty little girls might not be happy with what their Daddy and Papa have planned, but nobody asked them, did they?
This is short read and a very cute Halloween story. Ava does Daddy stories so well, and she showed the different kinds of Daddies that Jon and Clay are from each other without having to really shove it in our face or anything, she just had them going about their business. I would so love to read more about Jon and Lindy and Clay and Rowan, even if it’s just about one of the couples.
OK, I kind of feel sorry for Clay and Jon. It can’t be all that easy being them.
That’s all I have to say today. It’s short and sweet, but that’s because this book was. Go check it out, as well as all of Ava’s other books. Happy reading!
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D64GP4R/
Zari Delaney has secrets… the hissing variety. Once she ran away from her family of snake-god worshipers, Zari fought to build a new life. A normal life. A beautiful old farmhouse, an enjoyable job sewing and selling quilts, and a husband so sweet she can’t believe her luck, lulls her into thinking she can forget the venom of her lineage. But no amount of good fortune can mask the nightmares, the tremors, or the freak storm wreaking havoc on her peaceful existence.
The terrible truth has made itself known: Slither is coming for her. When she refuses to bow to the snake god’s demands, she’s left with the impossible choice to sacrifice either her husband or her unborn child. Trapped within the coils of a dark family secret, Zari must find a way to destroy Slither or risk losing the ones she loves the most.
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