Every child in Belle Dam is taught about the feud from an early age. There are ‘our’ people and ‘their’ people. Friends and enemies. Associates and strangers. It’s the kind of town where eyes are always watching, and you don’t need a reason to sell out your neighbors. But the feud is a lie. As… Continue reading Book Forty of 2014: PHANTOM EYES by Scott Tracey
Vampires exist among us. They can be our neighbor, best friend, our child's teacher ... They alter their aged appearance based upon the amount of blood they consume. They move to a new area, drink a lot of blood, and appear young. Slowly they limit their intake of blood and age, right in front of… Continue reading Book Thirty-Nine of 2014: UNITED SERVICE by Regina Morris
Prudence sets out with her band to Los Angeles to make it big. Leaving behind London is difficult for her, but not because she fears she’ll be homesick. She’s never coming back. And her brother has no idea.After she arrives, she performs one of her first shows. But little does she know, an admirer sits… Continue reading Book Thirty-Eight of 2014: UNDER MY THUMB by Abby Reynolds
What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach… Continue reading Book Thirty-Seven of 2014: SPOOK by Mary Roach
It's been a while since I've written a blog post that isn't a review and is just a simple update of my life. Not that my life is anything exciting. It isn't. Well, I've been going through therapy every two weeks to battle my anxiety and obviously it's been doing well. I'm still alive and… Continue reading Reading, Writing, And Bug… A Boring Update
DEAD SOUL MARY is a literary horror novel in the traditions of Richard Matheson, Clive Barker, and Stephen King.(From the back of the book) Megan Bauer, a spirited seventeen-year-old high school student, didn’t know souls could become sick. She didn’t know souls could die while the host lives on, unaware. But she’s going to find… Continue reading Book Thirty-Six of 2014: DEAD SOUL MARY by M.J. Winn
FLASH is the story of four lives changed by desperation and one devious invention. An inter-national thriller where biotechnology crosses the law, it’s The Bourne Identity meets The Firm. Two blood-spattered strangers awake locked in the trunk of a car—with a murdered cop and the smoking gun. Aside from raging headaches and no idea what has… Continue reading Book Thirty-Five of 2014: FLASH by Tim Tigner
Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'. Normal girls don't lose time, or have something inside them that makes them capable of remarkably violent things. Her behavior has already cost her one job, so when she's offered the lofty position of companion to Phoebe, a debutante recently engaged to Lord Vincent, she accepts, despite having no… Continue reading Book Thirty-Four of 2014: THE STRANGE CASE OF FINLEY JAYNE by Kady Cross
What worlds would you move to be with your soulmate? Painter Tessa Barnum is struggling. Her husband left, she's broke, about to be evicted and has made some serious missteps in her career. When scruffy Brian Tennyson explodes into her life, claiming to be from an alternate universe, Tessa thinks he's a crazy vagabond ― albeit… Continue reading Book Thirty-Three of 2014: THE LOVE OF MY (OTHER) LIFE by Traci L. Slatton
Ever been forced to do something despicable? Would you betray your family to save your child? Undermine your employer? Commit treason? Bin Laden gave terrorism a Middle-Eastern face. Now another misguided mastermind is giving it yours. But don’t feel bad, you’re not alone…. On the eve of perestroika, Alex Ferris stumbles onto KGB General Karpov’s scheme to… Continue reading Book Thirty-Two of 2014: COERCION by Tim Tigner
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