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Release Blitz: Cold Silence by Freya Barker

Friday, May 29, 2026

I'm hosting, a promo today, on Freya Barker's latest release, Cold Silence (Silence #4), as a part of ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out! Also enjoy a long excerpt from the featured book in the following post.
Cold Silence
Freya Barker
(Silence #4) 
Published: May 29, 2026  
Single motherhood to two teenage boys turns out to be far more challenging for Tessa Androtti than her brand-new job as detective for the Edwards County Sheriff’s Department. Especially, when the younger of her sons is keeping her up at night. Not only was the move from the big city supposed to give her a chance to build a new life away from lingering memories, but she had hoped it would be a positive change for her youngest, Remi.

However, just when she’s up to her eyeballs working on a recent violent murder, Remi gets himself into trouble again.

Trouble that appears to be connected to her investigation.

Lifetime resident of Silence, Clem Tanek, couldn’t be more surprised to find one of the new, pretty detective’s sons trespassing and stealing property from behind his auto repair shop. Despite his social awkwardness when interacting with the boy’s mother a few months ago, Clem can handle her kid just fine. Remi’s skills and interest in vehicles provide an opportunity to try and get the kid back onto the right track, without involving law enforcement. It also offers Clem a second chance with the new detective, hoping to make up for that disastrous first encounter.

But their path isn’t an easy one. Both have significant baggage, as one would expect from lives already half lived, and adapting to change can be a challenge. Particularly, when dealing with teenagers which, in this case, means wading into dangerous waters for both Tessa and Clem.

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Release Blitz: Between Sin and Ruin by S.S. Rayne

Friday, May 22, 2026

I'm hosting a promo, today, on S.S. Rayne's latest release, Between Sin and Ruin (Ruinous Duet #1), as a part of the ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out! Note that Between Sin and Ruin is free in kindle unlimited!!
Between Sin and Ruin
S.S. Rayne
(Ruinous Duet #1)
Published: May 15, 2026
 
In the Dominion, marriage wasn’t about love.
It was about power, loyalty, and survival.
I knew that when I said my vows.
I learned how to be still.
How to be perfect.
How to stand beside a man like Alaric Kostas—heir to an empire built on blood—and never let him see where I could break.
And for a while, I didn’t.
Because Alaric didn’t destroy what belonged to him.
He protected it.
Controlled it.
Closed his hand around it until there was nowhere left to run.
I let him.
I let him build a world around me that looked like devotion and felt like ownership.
Until the night I saw something I was never meant to see.
That was the night the illusion died.
The night I stopped being his perfect wife, and remembered exactly what I was capable of becoming.

🚨Author’s Note
This is a dark romance and explores themes of power, control, and betrayal, including one instance of infidelity.
This is a duet, and the central couple’s HEA unfolds in Book 2.
 
5 Star Amazon Review - “The writing is stunning. The world is rich and immersive and I was completely lost in it from the first page. The slow burn made me absolutely feral in the best way. Yes, the ending wrecked me. Yes I cried. Yes I am counting down the days until Book 2 with my whole being.” 

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Amazon US | Universal
  
 

Book Blast and Giveaway: Her Silence by S.T. Ashman

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Today, I'm hosting a promo on S.T. Ashman's upcoming release, Her Silence, as a part of the ongoing book blast tour. Check it out! Also enjoy an excerpt from the featured book in the following post.

S.T. Ashman will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
 
Her Silence
S.T. Ashman
Expected Publication: July 21, 2026
She survived the night. The truth didn't.

Nicole gets the call at 4 a.m. Her daughter Lacey was found in the woods beside her friend's dead husband. He was stabbed forty-four times. Lacey is barely alive. Covered in his blood. And completely mute.

She hasn't said a word since. Not to the police. Not to her husband. Not even to Nicole.

Nicole had Lacey at seventeen and swore her daughter would have a good life. Now Lacey is sitting in a cell, and Nicole's three grandchildren are left behind with a father who is losing it.

But Nicole knows her daughter. She isn't a cold-blooded murderer. Guilt didn't silence her. Fear did. Whatever happened in those woods scared Lacey more than prison.

So Nicole starts digging. But some secrets don't save people. They destroy them.
 
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Amazon
 

Release Blitz: Risk the Play by Kaylee Ryan

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

I'm hosting, today, a promo on Kaylee Ryan's latest release, Risk the Play (Nashville Rampage #6), as a part of the ongoing release blitz tour. Check it out! Note that Risk the Play is available for free in kindle unlimited!!
 
Risk the Play
Kaylee Ryan
(Nashville Rampage #6)
Published: May 19, 2026
 
NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Risk the Play is a single mom, coach, best friend's dad, forbidden, secret-relationship, age-gap romance.

Will
 
Football was always simple—follow the playbook, make the sacrifice, win the game.

I lived by that rule for decades, and it cost me everything. My marriage. My daughter.

By ten, she believed I loved the game more than her. Now she’s back in my life—with a family of her own—I fight every day to show her I’ve changed.

Then I fumble it all by falling for her best friend.

Amanda is strong, stubborn, and raising her daughter alone after her husband’s betrayal.

One kiss becomes something neither of us can ignore.

She wants to keep it secret. I don’t.

Because this time, I’m willing to risk the play. I won’t lose my second chance at love.

Amanda

I always knew I wanted to be a mother. I just never planned on doing it alone.

But when my ex got his assistant pregnant, I stopped, waiting for the life I thought I’d have—and choose motherhood for myself.

Now I’m a single mom doing my best to build a quiet, steady life with no drama and no risks.

Until my best friend’s father becomes the one risk I can’t resist.

Coach Warner is disciplined, respected… and completely off limits.

Watching him fight for his daughter only makes falling for him more dangerous.

We tell ourselves it’s just once.

But one reckless kiss turns into a night we can’t take back—and a secret we definitely can’t afford to keep.

Because if we’re discovered, I could lose my best friend…

And he could lose his daughter all over again.

Falling for me was never part of his playbook.

 


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