Sedona (A Novel) Book by Kerry Fryar Freeman

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  SEDONA: A Novel by Kerry Fryar Freeman
Category:  Adult Fiction (18+),  268 pages
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Release date:  November 2023
Content Rating:  PG-13: Mild adult language and recreational drug use.

Book Description:

Sedona, AZ is a tourist town that lures people from around the world who believe there is more beyond the veil of reality. They come for the whispering pines, Hopi legends, vortices, magic crystals, and healing springs.

Enter Cal Novak, a spunky editor from Atlanta, Georgia, who gives up the city life because she is searching for more: more time, more adventure, more meaning. The magic of her new hometown does not disappoint. Behind the curtain of every window there are secrets waiting to be uncovered. For those searching for more, there's no place like Sedona.

Cal is a curious woman and never stops to discover

Cal is a woman between a tourist and a local and needs to move into her new life, a new town with her Grandma Ruth in Sedona. A woman who is not a quitter and still has a thirst to solve problems even in a new place. I admire Cal she is my favorite character in this book. 

This book is hard to put down. I did not see it coming. Tommy, the Drunk man, blows my mind away. He is something else. Friendships are being questioned and people that surround you are hard to trust.  Who to believe and that is why Cal has to trust her instance. A beautiful mystery book that I had a great time reading. 

Sometimes, people have a vision to be rich by reaching goals that harm people and their surroundings. Some people just think that money is like magic and can do anything. Thank you to Cal, she saves Sedona, her life, and the people who truly care and love Sedona. This is one is an amazing book to read. 

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Meet the Author:

Kerry Fryar Freeman crafts fiction as if it were a new puzzle. The settings are real and well-researched, the details are rich and layered, and the stories absorb and propel readers one piece at a time.

Kerry’s debut novel, SEDONA: A NOVEL, was long-listed for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. Kerry also writes a blog called “Books and Bevies” where she features an array of authors from New York Times and Amazon bestsellers to debut Indie gems. Books and Bevies can be found on her website KerryFryarFreeman.com or by following her on Twitter @KerryFFreeman and Instagram @Books_and_Bevies. Kerry currently resides in North Carolina.

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A Carrows Murder (The Carrows Family Chronicles) Book by Annabelle Lewis

 

Book Details:

Book Title: A Carrows Murder (The Carrows Family Chronicles, Book 10) by Annabelle Lewis
Category:  Adult Fiction 18+, 286 pages
Genre: Mystery/Crime/Romance/Humor
Publisher:  PePe Press
Release Date: June 2024
Content Rating:  PG13 +M: My book has cursing. The f-bomb. Sexual flirting but closed-door action. 

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A Note from Annabelle Lewis:

Welcome to the latest installment of The Carrows Family Chronicles. Don't let the words Book 10 scare you! Dive into the adventure without the need for exhaustive backstory, as each page unfolds with its own excitement, color, and twists. While my characters’ pasts enrich their present journeys, rest assured that you can fully immerse yourself in this standalone tale. Prepare to be swept away by the twists, turns, fashion, humor and discoveries awaiting you within these pages.

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Book Description:

A Crafty Plan. A Healing Sojourn. A Deadly Twister.

Royal Dutton, close friend and stylist for Charles and Angelica Carrows, has a broken heart and he’s falling to bits. Disturbed by Royal’s escalating depression and dangerous choices, the London-based Carrows family decide to distract Royal with a vacation to an English castle on the dazzling eastern shores of Yorkshire, Britain.

Well-intentioned, they plan a murder mystery using the villagers near the castle as characters who will each play a role in convincing the unsuspecting Royal that there is a murder to be solved for a real-life person.

It should have been fun.

But there are unforeseen consequences. The small town of Boswell Crag and its eccentric villagers will never be the same.

And someone . . . will not survive.

Being greedy is a bad thing

I enjoyed reading this book by Ms. Annabelle Lewis. It is entertaining from the first page until the last chapter. It is hard to put it down and you want to devour reading your book in one setting.

This book is full of adventure, thrills, and fun out loud to read. I adore Royal Dutton and her two American friends and their generosity in helping and healing his broken heart.  The games are fun at the beginning until there is murder.

Being greedy is not a good thing and an illicit relationship will never last. It was fun until it was no longer. I love how the puzzles are being solved.  Being attentive helps a lot too. I wish I read other books from this series before reading the last book.  Definitely, I recommend this book who love to explore mystery and suspense. Definitely, 5 stars read for me. 

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Annabelle Lewis—a pseudonym—is a Minneapolis-based, multi-genre writer, dog lover, incredible mom, and champion of the screwed over. In addition to her touching, yet oddly scathing blog posted on her website, she’s published two exciting fictional series.

The Carrows Family Chronicles are humorous and vengeful caper novels. If you’re interested in a light romp about a family of well-dressed billionaires serving yummy revenge to a string of unsuspecting bad guys who have it coming, look no further.

The second series—The Boston Clairvoyants—is also a set of good versus evil stories. These psychic mystery/thrillers have been edited so they could be read as stand-alones, but as Glinda the Good Witch says – “It’s always best to start at the beginning.” The books have a supernatural hierarchy, a wee bit of romance and mythology, and a solid sense of humor. Lovers of dogs and Dean Koontz fans will adore these books.

Annabelle typically sends out two newsletters a month—so she promises not to annoy her subscribers too much. They typically contain feverish reviews on the latest stuff she is watching or reading, links to book giveaways, contests to win a signed paperback, and book browsing for other author’s work.

Oh, and a warning. Annabelle loves to curse. And there is cursing in her books and her blogs . . . because she’s gotta keep it real.

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Tidewater Book by Eric B. Miller

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  Tidewater by Eric B. Miller
Category:  Adult Fiction (18+), 588 pages
Genre:  Literary Fiction; Historical Fiction
Publisher:  Milbrown Press
Release date:   May 23, 2024
Formats Available for Review: print-softback (USA only), and ebook (EPUB and PDF)
Tour dates: Aug 5 to Aug 23
Content Rating:  PG-13 +M: There are sexual innuendos and numerous sex scenes. In every scene there is set up of taking clothes off, then the bedroom door closes. Language: There is mild profanity (2 G-damns). 

Book Description:

On a sluggish Chinese river in 1890, American heiress Alice Sheffield falls for Andrew Croft, the Boston soldier of fortune hired to bring her home. Alice looks past Andrew’s limitations and finds an agile mind willing to take a leap of faith.

Out of the turmoil of this relationship are born two sons who grow up knowing nothing of their parents’ former lives. Autie, a Princeton dropout, goes to war seeking adventure and fame; Rory, a morally adrift playboy, runs aground in the Mediterranean.

Caught up in their lives are Laura Eklund, the adopted sister in love with both since childhood; Lois, a bohemian Greenwich Village savant; Margaux du Pret, Belgian war bride on the brink of suicide; Procter Darlington, a young stockbroker living fast in Gay Nineties New York; and Gregory Haines, a disfigured war veteran running liquor in the early days of Prohibition.

Spanning the end of the Gilded Age to the aftermath of the Great War, Tidewater does not pass the torch from one generation to the next, but tells concurrently the stories of these individuals in a quickening pace where plans go awry and events turn on loves lost and found.

A beautiful story of family, love, and heroism 

It's a very long book to readorth every page to turn. I loved the book cover as well. It is so pretty. I can imagine myself taking a lot of snapshots of my camera.

Each chapter of the book brings you to so many topics and eras. I like that it takes us to so many places by not leaving our living room.  I have so many favorite characters but I adore Utie the most. The war he went through is so tough yet he fights until the end until the war is over. He is a man of color but is a fighter. I adore Delphina as well. A woman who is not  afraid to know what she wants and reach for her goal and have a better life. 

This book takes us to history of which we learned and do better in our lives. 

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Eric B. Miller grew up in southern New Jersey. He holds a master’s degree in English and pursued writing while working on farms in Virginia, Maryland, and Belgium. He spent twenty years in the business world back in New Jersey, then eighteen years in the American Red Cross, and recently began writing again. He is the author of Hula Girls, a novel...and Little Known Stories, Prose in Format.

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The Wedding Book by Kelly Smith

 

Book Details:

Book Title: The Wedding by Kelly Smith
Category:  Adult Fiction (18 +) , 240 pages
Genre:  Contemporary Romance, Friendship
Publisher:  Sunny Day Publishing
Release date:  September 2023
Content Rating: PG-13: A small amount of sec scenes 

Book Description:

Four friends, one city. Grace, Piper, Sydney and Rachel navigate life, careers, and love in Boston. Each woman is newly single and looking for a fresh start. As their work lives start to look up, they each meet a new man who may be “the one”—or may not. The bond the four women share helps them make better sense of their lives, but at times their friendship causes more issues than it solves. New couples form, and one of them is headed for the altar. But which of the women is about to be a bride?

All along the way, Grace, Piper, Sydney and Rachel are each other’s biggest fans and cheerleaders. The Wedding explores the bond women share and the love they seek.

Beautiful stories of friendship, families, tragedy, and above all love

Four beautiful women with different, unique characters and successful in their ways. Four individual women but together as one for the love of friendship which I enjoy reading. These women are so lucky to find each other.

Piper reminds me of my own story, especially about our mother. It is a beautiful but heartbreaking story. A beautiful friendship is hard to find. I thought I found mine but I was wrong. I am so happy for these women.

I read this book while I was traveling on the bus to Bologna Italy a few weeks ago.  This book is hard to put down and even though I am out of the country, I continue to read it. What a relaxing way while waiting for our flight. It relaxes me. 

Love is so powerful for one character that even if they are far away from each other, the love still exists despite different people. In the end, their happy ending is so beautiful and so are the rest of the women. What a powerful book to read and thankful that you have friends like them in real life. 

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Kelly Smith, a three-time published author, first came on the scene with her debut novel, Signs in the Rearview Mirror Leaving a Toxic Relationship Behind. After healing from her toxic relationships, she soon realized dating after a toxic relationship was difficult, which then led her to write Out of the Darkness. Out of the Darkness, her sophomore book is about her experiences with healing after abuse, dating, and finding love again. Sunny Day Publishing published all of her books.

Smith, an award-winning writer, writes for Elephant Journal and HuffPost. Smith is a dating expert for the online relationship and dating magazine, GoDates.

Smith is a certified relationship and dating coach who works with clients who are trying to rebuild their lives after an abusive relationship ends, or after a long-term relationship ends.

Smith is a Boston native who moved to the Austin, TX area in July 2003 with her three sons.

Media Expertise Kelly can speak on topics including domestic violence in teen dating, narcissism, and toxic relationships, women as the abusers, recovering from an abusive relationship, dating again after an abusive relationship, narcissism in both men and women, and living as an adult child with a narcissistic parent.

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Keeping Janie Book by S. R. Fabrico

 

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Book Details:
Book Title:  Keeping Janie: Southport Series, Book 2 by S.R. Fabrico
Category:  Adult Fiction (18+),  320 pages
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Publisher:  S.R. Fabrico
Release date:  Feb, 2024
Content Rating:  PG-13+M for a few sex scenes, some bad language and a murder.

Book Description:

Embark on an exhilarating reunion with Lizzie Levine, Southport, North Carolina’s newest resident, who first graced our hearts in the award-winning novel Call Her Janie. In this eagerly awaited sequel by S.R. Fabrico, the stakes are higher, the twists more exhilarating, and the drama more enthralling.

Reuniting with her daughter, Janie, should be the start of Lizzie’s picture-perfect life. Behind the scenes, however, is a different matter. The happiness of having her daughter back is overshadowed by the fear ad distrust of her ex-boyfriend, billionaire Gray Stone.

Amidst the tapestry of wedding preparations, the custody fight looms. The story unfolds in a battleground of secrets, lies, and deception. In this gripping narrative, love and lies entwine, danger lurks in the shadows, and the courage to confront one’s past becomes paramount. Can Lizzie gain custody of her daughter, marry the man she loves, and have her happily-ever-after, or will the mistakes of their past destroy them all?

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Meet the Author:

S.R. Fabrico is an award-winning author whose literary talents have captivated readers worldwide. With her debut novel, The Secrets We Conceal, and her second novel, Call Her Janie, she has emerged as a rising star in the literary realm.

With a remarkable 25-plus-year career in business, marketing, and sports, S.R. Fabrico brings a unique perspective to her writing. As a World Champion Dance Coach and esteemed speaker, she infuses her stories with passion and insight.

Residing in Tennessee with her husband and children, S.R. Fabrico continues to create captivating narratives that will transport you to new and extraordinary worlds. Prepare to be enchanted by her exceptional storytelling prowess.

In addition to her passion for writing novels, she has published a series of sports journals and a journal for women. She believes that journaling is good for the soul.

I did not see that coming

The second book from the series of Southport "Keeping Janie" blew my mind. I did not see it coming. Wow! This book is of a kind story. The power of a mother to keep her daughter safe from harm is undeniably strong. 

Keeping Janie is a hard book to put down. You just want to devour it in one setting. The story is so emotional. I almost cry. Reading from a chapter that happened to my life last almost two months is so fresh. I took a moment and breathed to continue reading that specific chapter. Janie will grow up strong, brave, and fighting to survive what she has been through with the help of her family. 

This book is so suspenseful that you might need a Kleenex and hold on tight when you are reading this beautiful story. Ms. S. R. Fabrico is becoming my new favorite author. I hope to read the happy ever after for Janie and the loving family that surrounds her. 

I highly recommend this book if you love to read suspense. 

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Pajama Party Book By E. C. Jackson

 

Book Details:

​Book Title: Pajama Party: The Story by E.C. Jackson
Category:  Teen & Adult Fiction (13 to 18 yrs), 241 pages
Genre: Teen & Young Adult Fiction / Teen & Young Adult Christian Fiction
Publisher:  E.C. Jackson
Release date:  Sep 30, 2017
Content Rating:  PG + M. These books contain mature themes.

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Book Description:

Most sleepovers are simple. Food, fun, and pillow fights. But sixteen-year-old Karen Duncan has bigger plans for her slumber party. Family troubles have changed her over the past year, and she’s no longer the petty, selfish girl she used to be. Now she’s ready to shake things up with her friends. The guest list comes as a surprise to some and a slap in the face to others. This popular girl has invited some not-so-popular guests. Even more shocking, she’s left out some of the girls she’s hung out with since middle school.

Diane and Evette are outsiders, nervous about being stuck in a house with the same girls who tease them at school.

Kathy, Lisa, and Joann come to the party with the confidence of the in-crowd, but they’re masking inner-turmoil that is bound to surface.

Sandy and Angela are usually the voices of reason…usually. And then there’s Linda, the friend that got away. She may not ever forgive the girls who abandoned her years ago. Karen hopes to change her mind. Her agenda is ambitious, and it could spell disaster. But Karen is convinced God will use this party to spark a new beginning for everyone involved.

This companion book to A Living Hope gives us the inspired story Sadie Cummings wrote for the girls of Shiatown.

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Overflow With Hope Book By E. C. Jackson Book 5 Of The Hope Series

 

Book Details:

​Book Title: Overflow With Hope: Hope Series, Book 5 by E.C. Jackson
Category:  Adult Fiction 18+, 241 pages
Genre: Inspirational Romance
Publisher:  E.C. Jackson
Release date:  Nov 9, 2023
Content Rating:  PG + M. These books contain mature themes.

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Book Description:

​Two men. One wrong choice.

Tempia Wade’s life had jumped the rails.

One fateful night, she believed a stranger’s lie rather than the assurance of a trusted friend. For her lapse in judgment, she paid an agonizing price.

Her now-bankrupt life featured shattered dreams, ruined friendships, and the loss of a promising relationship. Now, two years later, the twenty-three-year-old prayed for a second chance with the man she had fallen for at first sight.

Would Cory Sanders finally overlook her egregious mistake in accepting a next-day date and liaison with another man? Or would she have to truly accept life without him?

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