Cover Reveal: Whiskey: The Alpha Elite Series #7

BOOK DETAILS:

Whiskey
by Sybil Bartel
(The Alpha Elite, #7)
Publication date: May 23, 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense

Synopsis:

Mercenary.

Navy SEAL.

Unconventional Operative.

I didn’t join the Teams. I was recruited. They called me the Specialist. They said I had a unique skill set. I knew who I was.

For eight years, the Navy tried to rein me in with their tactics, techniques and procedures—operations, missions, objectives—they told me to adapt and overcome. I didn’t adapt. I did my time.

Now I worked for Alpha Elite Security. If you called me Specialist, I’d eliminate you before you took your next breath. If you recognized me, it was already too late. I lived by my instincts, and used the resources around me. No target was out of my scope…until my boss unknowingly handed me the only assignment that was.

The one woman I couldn’t kill.

Code name: Whiskey.
Mission: Eliminate.

WHISKEY is a standalone book in the exciting Alpha Elite Series by USA Today Bestselling author, Sybil Bartel. Come meet Will “Whiskey” Damien and the dominant, alpha heroes who work for AES!

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61159998-whiskey

Pre-order: https://books2read.com/u/3JEnLP

AUTHOR BIO:

Sybil Bartel is a USA Today Bestselling author of unapologetic alpha heroes. Whether you’re reading her deliciously dominant mercenaries, bodyguards or military heroes, all of her heart-stopping, page-turning romantic suspense novels have sexy-as-sin alpha heroes!

Sybil resides in South Florida and she is forever Oliver’s mom.

To find out more about Sybil Bartel or her books, please visit her at:
Website: http://sybilbartel.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sybilbartelauthor
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1065006266850790/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sybil.bartel/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SybilBartel
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sybil-bartel
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bRSE2T

Cover Reveal: As The Secrets Turn by B.Truly

BOOK DETAILS:

As The Secrets Turn
by B. Truly
(My Darkest Secret, #3)
Publication date: January 17, 2023
Genres: Romance, Suspense, Young Adult

Synopsis:

When we collided, it turned into beautiful chaos.

I am patient and kind. I do not envy or boast.
He is not proud or rude. He is not easily angered and always protects.
I am not self-seeking and he does not delight in evil.
We define the essence of Love.

In life’s beauty, there are also challenges as the world turns.
Justin and I have overcome a multitude of struggles, starting with his vindictive brother. When I fought for prosecution, I became a pawn in his brother’s game, but I prevailed.

The shockwaves of ridicule didn’t engulf us—they only made us stronger. The center point is knowing that what Justin and I share is real.
Over the last year, we’ve been in the calm of our life. The key to weathering through tremendous obstacles is to find a balance between the good and the terrible. I discover family who can never seem to be happy for you, and deceit that isn’t mine to share. A surge of turbulence is thrown in our path as we attempt to make it to the altar. Saying ‘I do’ may not be in our future. Is fate trying to show us that our love isn’t meant to be?

A family member disappears, and someone must know of her whereabouts. When it turns out the only person who has a clue is my daughter, it puts a horrific spin on the situation. How can my daughter be involved or know the things that she does?
As the tides rise to threaten us, our fate hangs in the balance. How our journey ends on the other side of the tempest, is yet to be told.

This novel can be read as a stand-alone.
Books 1 and 2 do not have to be read first.

As the deceit turns, it unravels into a spectacle of mystery that will evoke the question of existence. Buckle your seatbelts for the captivating conclusion to Madison’s journey.

Recommended for 16+ due to mature themes, including drugs, sexual content, disturbing situations, and mild language.
If you’re not a fan of forbidden romance, then this might not be the book for you.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62829402-as-the-secrets-turn

Pre-order: https://amzn.to/3fyqZDB

AUTHOR BIO:

B. Truly has wanted to be an author since she was fifteen years old. She is grateful to have accomplished this dream. B. Truly has very vivid dreams and a wild imagination. She likes to read, watch tons of TV shows, and movies. She’s addicted to romance and gets a thrill out of suspense and sci-fi. She writes young adult, new adult, and adult romance, sci-fi, dystopian, and paranormal genres.

B. Truly likes to explore conflicted plots of romance with thrilling twists. She also loves creating impossible situations for her characters to grow from and try to overcome.

B. Truly has three wonderful children, and a husband who defines the person that she is today. She works full-time as an Ultrasound technologist in Houston, Texas.

Author links:
https://www.facebook.com/BTrulysFantasies
https://twitter.com/BrandyTruly
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7276631.B_Truly
https://www.instagram.com/brandytruly/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandy-truly-a917a9b3/

Cover Reveal: Echo by Sybil Bartel

BOOK DETAILS:

Echo
by Sybil Bartel
(The Alpha Elite Series)
Publication date: January 19, 2023
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Suspense

Synopsis:

Navy SEAL.

Mercenary.

Ghost.

Joining the military wasn’t a choice, it was survival. The Navy was the last place they’d think to look for me. Hiding in plain sight, I lived in the shadow of deployments… until an off-the-books mission put me in the crosshairs of my past.

My cover blown, I walked away from the SEALs and sought refuge at the one place where I’d be more invisible than on the Teams—Alpha Elite Security. As a Black Ops government contractor, AES was the world’s leading provider of security solutions. High stakes, higher price tag, and complete anonymity. I fit right in.

But then I made a mistake. A single misstep and I was face to face with the only woman who could kill me faster than a bullet.

Code name: Echo.
Mission: Evade.

ECHO is a standalone book in the exciting Alpha Elite Series by USA Today Bestselling author, Sybil Bartel. Come meet Echo and the dominant, alpha heroes who work for AES!

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59521401-echo

Pre-order:

Amazon: https://amzn.to/3TVnDKj

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/echo-sybil-bartel/1140471756?ean=2940165719677

iBooks: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/echo/id1592924149

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/echo-95

AUTHOR BIO:

Sybil Bartel is a USA Today Bestselling author of unapologetic alpha heroes. Whether you’re reading her deliciously dominant mercenaries, bodyguards, or military heroes, all of her heart-stopping, page-turning romantic suspense novels have sexy-as-sin alpha heroes!

Sybil resides in South Florida and she is forever Oliver’s mom.

To find out more about Sybil Bartel or her books, please visit her at:
Website: http://sybilbartel.com/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sybilbartelauthor
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1065006266850790/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sybil.bartel/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SybilBartel
BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sybil-bartel
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bRSE2T

Lisa Jewell Book Signing

In August, Barnes and Noble in Paramus, NJ, hosted a book event featuring Harlan Coben in conversation with Lisa Jewell. My last in-person book event at B&N was with Lisa during her book release of The Family Upstairs. The book was part of the B&N Book Club. After so many events were canceled due to COVID, it is great to see a good turnout this year. It is recommended that you read The Family Upstairs before continuing with The Family Remains. Lisa is one of my favorite psychological thriller authors that write captivating stories with real-life issues that readers can relate to.

Goodreads Blurb

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an
intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and
deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to The Family Upstairs.

Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to
the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for
examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three
people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.

Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—news that her husband, Michael, has
been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an
intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions
about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer.

After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy,
Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is
just about to purchase their first-ever house, her brother takes off to find
the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present.

As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they
will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never
imagined.

In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller, The
Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell proves she is writing at the height of her
powers with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the
lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.

Author Biography

Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the best-selling debut novel of 1999.
Since then she has written another twenty novels, most recently a number of
dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls, Then She Was Gone, The
Family Upstairs, and The Night She Disappeared.

Lisa is a New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author who
has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north
London with her husband, two teenage daughters, and the best dog in the world.

Cover Reveal: Emerald Eyes by Aurelia Yates

BOOK DETAILS:

Emerald Eyes
Aurelia Yates
Publication date: August 30, 2022
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense

Synopsis:

After the death of her mother and losing her job, Sarah realizes there’s nothing keeping her in the small town where she grew up, and she travels to New York to stay with her best friend. Upon her arrival, she literally falls for a sexy, dark man with mesmerizing emerald-green eyes.

Chance encounters continue to bring them together, and Sarah finds herself drawn into a sinful world she’s never known. Wilder is unlike any other man, and although she tries, she can’t resist him or his dominating temperament.

Try as she might, Wilder will not let Sarah escape him, and with a stalker coming after her, he is determined to protect her with everything he has—even when he has to punish her in the bedroom for disobeying his commands.

Cover Reveal: Midnight and Bex by Heather Van Fleet

BOOK DETAILS:

Midnight and Bex
by Heather Van Fleet
Publication date: October 18, 2022
Genres: Suspense, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Trauma and intrigue bring an unlikely couple together in a sleepy Illinois suburb…

Bex Mahoney knows all too well what it’s like to be a loner. As a girl who’d much rather get lost in books and Netflix than makeup and school dances, it’s taken her all of six months to adjust to a new high school and the friends who come with it. But as much as she wants to find some peace following the death of her father, she can’t seem to grasp hold of it like she should. That is until she’s partnered up with a boy in chem who seems to carry more weight on his shoulders than Bex ever has.

Midnight Turner is lost in a dark world that Bex can’t even come close to touching. It’s because of his mysterious persona, though, that her intrigue with him grows stronger by the day. But when a flashback into Midnight’s past has him yanking Bex under chem tables and crying in Latin against her neck, Bex makes it her new life goal to figure him out.

When Bex’s closest friend tells her to steer clear of Midnight, an already insatiable curiosity in Bex grows deeper. But with this curiosity blooms new love. The kind that neither of them ever saw coming. Torn between a past he can’t change and a future she desires, both Midnight and Bex must learn to live in the present where the demons from Midnight’s prior life return to either haunt them…or worse.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60011182-midnight-and-bex

Pre-order: https://geni.us/midnightandbex

AUTHOR BIO:

Heather Van Fleet is a stay-at-home-mom turned book boyfriend connoisseur. She’s married to her high school sweetheart, a mom to three girls, and in her spare time, you can find her with her head buried in her Kindle, guzzling down copious amounts of coffee.

Heather graduated from Black Hawk College in 2003 and currently writes Adult contemporary romance. She is published through Sourcebooks Casablanca with her Reckless Hearts series and Bookouture with her Red Dragon series.

Author links:
http://www.heathervanfleet.com/
https://www.facebook.com/authorheathervanfleet
https://www.pinterest.ca/heathervanfleet/_saved/
https://twitter.com/HLVanFleet
https://www.instagram.com/hvfwrites/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6870087.Heather_Van_Fleet

Cover Reveal: Scarred Siren by Jennifer Bene

BOOK DETAILS:

Scarred Siren
by Jennifer Bene
(The Beth Series, #3)
Publication date: October 14, 2022
Genres: Adult, Gothic, Romance, Suspense

Synopsis:

The end of Beth’s story is coming in October 2022, pre-order now!

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60679266-scarred-siren

Pre-order: https://amzn.to/3vGcRMA

AUTHOR BIO:

Jennifer Bene is a USA Today bestselling author of dangerously sexy and deviously dark romance. From BDSM, to Suspense, Dark Romance, and Thrillers—she writes it all. Always delivering a twisty, spine-tingling journey with the promise of a happily-ever-after.

Don’t miss a release! Sign up for the newsletter to get new book alerts (and a free welcome book) at http://jenniferbene.com/newsletter

Author links:
https://twitter.com/jbeneauthor
https://jenniferbene.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jbeneauthor
https://www.instagram.com/jbeneauthor/
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/jennifer-bene
http://jenniferbene.com/newsletter
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9867221.Jennifer_Bene

Cover Reveal: Damaged Doll by Jennifer Bene

BOOK DETAILS:

Damaged Doll
by Jennifer Bene
(The Beth Series, #2)
Publication date: July 12, 2022
Genres: Adult, Gothic, Romance, Suspense

Synopsis:

The long-awaited sequel to Breaking Beth is finally coming in July 2022, pre-order now!

“I’m too broken for love.”

After everything Beth has been through, all she wants is to feel normal.
To be normal.
But the weight of her past won’t let her go easily.

“Wanting her is wrong.”

All Jake wants is to be a hero.
To save as many as he can from the monsters of this world.
But when the monsters come for Beth Doherty…
he isn’t thinking like a hero.

Ripping her out of her life was bad enough.
Wanting her is worse.
But resisting her might just be impossible.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60679256-damaged-doll

Pre-order: https://amzn.to/3j0sKra

AUTHOR BIO:

Don’t miss a release! Sign up for the newsletter to get new book alerts (and a free welcome book) at http://jenniferbene.com/newsletter

Author links:

Tweets by jbeneauthor

https://jenniferbene.com/

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9867221.Jennifer_Bene

Review: Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

Goodreads Blurb

Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno is a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life.

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 Stars

Trains are supposed to take you on an adventure, but this particular train will open a bizarre door of no return. Guy ends up having an unexpecting conversation with a man he meets on the train named Bruno. Bruno comes up with the perfect double murder plot that Guy forgets about when leaving it all behind on the train. But Bruno went through with his brilliant murder plan and now torments Guy to commit his part of the deal that Guy never agreed on.

This story will give you a first-hand account of a murders thought process and how one insane man can make a regular man go mad, delirious, frightened enough to proceed with murdering someone. The reader will be right inside Bruno’s plotting schemes which will feel like the reader agrees to complete the murder with Bruno. You will also get a first-hand glimpse of how manipulation and fear can shape someone to commit a murder. Can this perfect double murder run smoothly, as planned, or will the cops narrow down on the case?

Author Biography

Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations over the years. Her first suspense novel ‘Strangers on a Train’ published in 1950 was an immediate success with the public and critics alike. The novel has been adapted for the screen three times, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951.

Review: Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon

Goodreads Blurb

One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world.

I went up the hill, the hill was muddy, stomped my toe and made it bloody, should I wash it?

Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend. Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was . . . different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee’s welcome home party, Justin and the neighborhood crew play Hide and Seek. But it goes wrong. Very wrong.

One by one, everyone who plays the game disappears, pulled into a world of nightmares come to life. Justin and his friends realize this horrible place is where Zee had been trapped. All they can do now is hide from the Seeker.

My Review: Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A debut middle-grade novel about a game of Hide and Seek with a frightening twist.
A member of a group of friends goes missing for a year and comes back different. A
game of Hide and Seek is played and all the rules are broken by each of the players.
What the players don’t know is that a Seeker that is a creature from another world
will hunt each one to bring them to his world called Nowhere to trap them and
frighten them with their own personal fears. After the Seeker has 400 children, he
will be able to roam our world. The group of friends will need to work together to
return to their world and defeat the Seeker at his own game.

The horror scenes are scary for a middle scholar but not too frightening. The
parallel world the author created will frighten anyone as it looks exactly like our
real world, only with dark skies and your worst fears ready to attack you. Nothing is
scarier than seeing your family and not being able to talk or touch them. The author
did a great job developing the different fears children have and making them scarier.

Author Biography

Daka Hermon was born in Tennessee and spent her childhood huddled under a blanket with a flashlight reading and writing fairy-tale and fantasy stories. She works in the entertainment industry and is an active member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She loves peach sweet tea, chocolate, cupcakes, and collecting superhero toys. Daka lives in California and can be found online at dakahermon.com and on Twitter @dakadh.