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Release Blitz: Shattered Hopes by Addy Anders

Monday, February 23, 2026

Today, I'm hosting a promo on Addy Anders's latest release, Shattered Hopes (Letters of Ruin #2), as a part of the ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out! Also enjoy a short excerpt from the featured book. Note that Shattered Hopes is free in kindle unlimited!!
 
Shattered Hopes
Addy Anders
(Letters of Ruin #2)
Published: February 23, 2026
 
He stole my brother. So, I stole his freedom…
There’s a villain in all of us.
I just never realized that until the worst day of my life.
It started with a sandwich from a stranger—an act of kindness that was nothing more than a veneer to hide the devil behind the mask.
Renzo Iannelli took everything from me that day. My family. My life. My future.
I wasn’t even a blip on his radar when he made me an orphan—left alone to be bruised and abused in foster care—all for the sake of his revenge.
Well, he got his. Now, I’m going to get mine.
No matter how long it takes, no matter what I have to sacrifice, I will make him rue the day he destroyed my life.
But the world is never black and white, and there are far more heartless monsters closing in around me.
So what happens when the devil I know becomes the only person I can trust?
He was my downfall.
I never expected him to also be my redemption.

**This book spans over eight years and is divided into three parts: then, letters, and now. During the “then” portion of this book, the main female character, Ainsley, is a minor. As a disclaimer, there is absolutely no romantic interaction during that portion of the book. However, this section is crucial to the development of their romance later on.

Buy Links:
Amazon US | Amazon Universal
 

Release Blitz: Guilty Silence by Freya Barker

Monday, February 09, 2026

I'm hosting, today, a promo on Freya Barker's latest release, Guilty Silence (Silence #3), as a part of the ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out! Also enjoy a large excerpt from the featured book.
 
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Guilty Silence 
Freya Barker
(Silence #3) 
Published: February 9, 2026 
 
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Bess Choi is proud of what she’s accomplished. Owner of Strange Brew, a popular coffee shop in Silence, she’s worked hard and has overcome many obstacles to build the life she has. It’s a good life, one that includes work she loves, an apartment to call her own, and plenty of good friends.
 
But an unexpected phone call comes as a brutal reminder of a time she thought she’d left far behind. Suddenly, she’s faced with the choice to turn her back on the beautiful life she created, or break her guilty silence.
 
Chief Deputy Hugo Alexander isn’t sure when exactly he started seeing the quiet coffee shop owner as more than simply a good friend. It’s hard to pinpoint the moment when she went from a supportive friend to him and his teenage son, to the woman who features in his dreams and fantasies.
 
Unfortunately, Bess Choi seems to have him firmly locked in the friend zone, and it’s not until worrisome things start happening around her, she cautiously starts lowering the barriers.
 
But when he discovers she might be in far more danger than she’s been willing to let on, he’s done tiptoeing around.
 
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Blurb Blitz and Giveaway: Letters From Lucca by Kim Baccellia

Thursday, February 05, 2026

I'm hosting a promo, today, on Kim Baccellia's latest release, Letters from Lucca, as a part of the ongoing blurb blitz tour. Check it out!

Kim Baccellia will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
Letters From Lucca
Kim Baccellia
Published: February 3, 2026
  
On the heels of Sammi's grandmother’s whispered deathbed wish, a package of letters from Italy arrives at her post box. Reading them makes Sammi recall whispers she heard in childhood of her grandmother’s wartime involvement, a past that Sammi's father and aunt would rather see remain closed. As if things couldn't get any worse, her long-time boyfriend, Hunter, dumps her. 
 
However, an opportunity arises that sends her to Italy to defend her grandmother, even if the truth might shatter all she believes. In a helpful twist, Joseph, her best friend’s Italian cousin, offers to help her.  Despite the obvious growing attraction between Joseph and her, she tries to suppress it as she embarks on her mission to vindicate the grandmother she loves. 
 
Buy Link:
Amazon
 

Release Blitz: Neighborhood Watch by Britney King

Thursday, January 29, 2026

I'm hosting a promo, today, on Britney King's latest release, Neighborhood Watch, as a part of the ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out!
 
 
Neighborhood Watch
Britney King
Published: January 29, 2026
 
From bestselling author Britney King comes a razor-sharp psychological thriller about a street built on secrets, a neighbor who knows too much, and the woman who learns—too late—that the most dangerous lies are the ones everyone else is willing to believe.
“You’d be surprised how easy it is to disappear someone.”
That’s what Clint says. Always with a smile. Always like a joke.
But Nora knows better—jokes don’t leave bodies.
Nora Givens runs the salon where the cul-de-sac comes to confess. She knows who’s day-drinking, whose marriage is composting under the patio lights, and which neighbors wield kindness like a weapon. What she doesn’t know is why things on her street suddenly feel wrong.
A break-in with no motive.
A Peeping Tom no one can describe.
A woman who never makes it home.
The neighborhood responds the way they always do—with performative concern. Meetings. Patrols. A nonstop group chat. And Clint, the charming new arrival, is suddenly everywhere: taking notes, volunteering, appearing even before the sirens.
Everyone adores him.
Everyone trusts him.
Everyone but Nora.
When her police statement disappears, her dog vanishes, and her tire fails in a place she’d never survive a crash, the cul-de-sac decides she’s the problem—another “overwhelmed woman” who should calm down and stop making waves.
But Clint keeps offering help.
The kind that looks generous to everyone else—
and strategic to her.
As Nora closes in on the truth, she realizes the quiet horror of suburbia:
Some neighbors want to keep you safe.
Others want to keep you quiet.
And on this street, the simplest way to disappear someone…
is to make sure no one believes her first.
Dark, addictive, and knife-edged, Neighborhood Watch delivers jaw-dropping twists, a psychological chess match in plain sight, and a villain hiding where you least expect him. Perfect for readers who want a thriller that gets under your skin and stays there.
 
 
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