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Book Blitz and Giveaway! THE BUFFALO BUTCHER: JACK THE RIPPER IN THE ELECTRIC CITY by Robert Brighton

Published by beckymmoe on 01/10/2024

The Buffalo Butcher: Jack the Ripper in the Electric Cityby Robert BrightonPublication date: October 8th 2023Genres: Adult, Historical Has Jack the Ripper returned? Summer 1901, and the great Pan-American Exposition welcomes the world to Buffalo, New York—Queen of the Lakes . . . the Electric City. Eight million visitors throng the bustling boomtown—all of them looking for a good time. While the Pan-American blazes bright, in its shadow lies a zone of darker pleasures: the Tenderloin District, a rabbit’s warren of saloons, brothels, and ask-no-questions hotels. In this sprawling vice quarter, fully as large as the Exposition itself, fairgoers can indulge their…

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New Release and Giveaway! ROME’S LAST NOBLE PALACE by Kimberly Sullivan

Published by beckymmoe on 12/12/2023

Rome’s Last Noble Palaceby Kimberly SullivanPublication date: December 6th 2023Genres: Adult, Historical, Paranormal, Women’s Fiction Two women. Two different centuries. One attic room American Isabelle Field has been shipped off to Rome to live with her aunt, Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio. Isabelle’s aunt and mother share a common goal – replicating Elizabeth’s success by marrying Isabelle off to a European nobleman. But Rome in 1896 is on the cusp of a new century and Isabelle longs for more than a titled husband. She secretly designs costumes for Rome’s burgeoning theatre environment and dreams of opening a fashion atelier. Can she gather the courage to forge…

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New Release and Giveaway! THE UNLIKELY SPY by Sophie Schiller

Published by beckymmoe on 09/22/2022

The Unlikely Spyby Sophie SchillerPublication date: August 21st 2022Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance, Thriller Casablanca meets Notorious in a Hitchcock-style thriller of espionage, romance, adventure, and intrigue. 1917. Emma Christensen is a young widow who returns to the Danish West Indies to reclaim the life and the villa she left behind. When she discovers her husband has disinherited her in favor of his young heir—an illegitimate son—she turns to the one thing she knows, gambling, and soon finds herself deeply in debt. Emma is approached by Cornelius Smith, a representative of an American shipping line, who offers an alternative: infiltrate the suspicious Hamburg-American Line and spy on its…

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New Release! THE POTTER’S WHEEL by Mark Scheel

Published by beckymmoe on 09/11/2021

From Mark Scheel and @clarendonhousebooks comes THE POTTER’S WHEEL, an historical literary fiction set in the sixties. The year is 1967. Mel Steadman, a Midwestern farm youth recovering from a severe head injury, becomes dissatisfied living at home and hops a bus to California. He finds work in a low-rent hotel chain and mingles with the young drifters along Hollywood Boulevard. Soon he bonds with an estranged night wanderer named Burch who clerks in a shop called The Potter’s Wheel and encounters a free-spirited femme fatale named Maureen. Adventure follows adventure, culminating, however, in abandonment and violence. Young Mel accrues many…

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Book Tour Grand Finale and Giveaway! SILVER MOON by Jenny Knipfer

Published by beckymmoe on 09/06/2020

On Tour with Prism Book Tours We hope you enjoyed the tour! If you missed any of the stops you’ll find snippets, as well as the link to each full post, below: Launch – Author Interview What inspired you to write SILVER MOON? Silver Moon is the third book in a four-part series and follows the story of the children of some of the characters in Blue Moon, about twenty years after Blue Moon leaves off. When I had finished Blue Moon, I knew I was going to write about Luis and Oshki, but I didn’t know how to start until…

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Release Day and Giveaway! RIBBONS OF SCARLET by Laura Kamoie * Kate Quinn * Stephanie Dray * Sophie Perinot * Heather Webb * E. Knight

Published by beckymmoe on 10/01/2019

Title: Ribbons of Scarlet Authors: Laura Kamoie * Kate Quinn * Stephanie Dray * Sophie Perinot * Heather Webb * E. Knight Genre: Historical Fiction Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution—and change the world. In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise—upending a world order that has long oppressed them. Blue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man…

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New Release Review! THE WIDOW OF PALE HARBOR by Hester Fox

Published by beckymmoe on 09/30/2019

Title: The Widow of Pale Harbor Author: Hester FoxGenre: Domestic suspense, historical, gothicImprint: Graydon HouseISBN: 9781525834264Pages: 352On-sale date: September 17, 2019Format & pricing: Trade paperback (16.99 U.S.) From the author of the buzzed-about THE WITCH OF WILLOW HALL comes an atmospheric follow-up novel set in historic New England, about a minister who takes a position in a small Maine town plagued by strange occurances that resemble the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, and the woman–rumored to be a witch and a murderer–presumed to be behind them. Maine, 1846. Gideon Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in…

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New Release Review and Giveaway! THE ROGUE TO RUIN by Vivienne Lorret (Misadventures in Matchmaking #3)

Published by beckymmoe on 08/18/2019

The Rogue to Ruin by Vivienne LorretSeries Misadventures in Matchmaking SeriesGenre Adult Historical RomancePublisher Avon BooksPublication Date July 30, 2019 The Bourne Matrimonial Agency has one rule: Never fall in love with a client, which shouldn’t be a problem when one’s faking an engagement to the rogue across the street . Ainsley Bourne needs the family business to succeed. But one obstacle stands in her way—Reed Sterling, the huge, handsome, former prize fighter and owner of the gaming hell across the street. His scandalous customers scare off all her marriage-minded patrons and since the devilish brute has no intention of…

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New Release Review and Giveaway! WHEN A LADY KISSES A SCOT by Tara Kingston (Her Majesty’s Most Secret Service #4)

Published by beckymmoe on 08/01/2019

Rose Fleming has been presumed dead for the last decade. It required leaving everything—and everyone—she loved behind, including MacAllister Campbell. But faking her death allowed her to stay safe until the threat posed by a mysterious villain had passed. Believing it’s finally safe again, she returns…and runs smack into the only man she ever loved. But Rose was wrong and the stalker she escaped years ago still has her in his sights. Ten years ago, Mac mourned the death of the woman he loved. It’s taken years to heal his heart only to discover that not only is Rose still…

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New Release and Giveaway! LADY DERRING TAKES A LOVER by Julie Anne Long (The Palace of Rogues #1)

Published by beckymmoe on 03/04/2019

Lady Derring Takes a Lover by Julie Anne LongISBN 9780062867469Avon Books; $7.99 A mistress. A mountain of debt. A mysterious wreck of a building. Delilah Swanpoole, Countess of Derring, learns the hard way that her husband, “Dear Dull Derring,” is a lot more interesting—and perfidious—dead than alive. It’s a devil of an inheritance, but in the grand ruins of the one building Derring left her, are the seeds of her liberation. And she vows never again to place herself at the mercy of a man. But battle-hardened Captain Tristan Hardy is nothing if not merciless. When the charismatic naval hero tracks a…

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