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  Hello! I have difficult news to share. However, after much contemplation, I feel like honesty is the best path forward. Please know that I am a people pleaser at heart and this level of vulnerability is difficult for me yet important because I enjoy working with you and want our relationship to continue. In the grand scheme of things, this is a blip, and I will be back. This past October I was diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer. My treatment plan was to have a lumpectomy then radiation. It didn't turn out to be that easy. I underwent three lumpectomies and was finally cleared to begin radiation treatment.  My radiation treatment began last week, and I will undergo 3 more weeks of treatment. With an additional two weeks in which I may not feel 100%. So far, I am experiencing more side effects than I had anticipated. Funny, how cancer treatment reminds us we are human and none of this is in our control. 🤣🤣🤣 You may be wondering what this means for my reading

  Twelve Hours in Manhattan Maan Gabriel Publication date: April 18th 2023 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Fairy Tales, Romance Two worlds. One heart. Twelve hours. Bianca Maria Curtis is at the brink of losing it all when she meets Eric at a bar in Manhattan. Eric, as it turns out, is the famous Korean drama celebrity Park Hyun Min, and he’s in town for one night to escape the pressures of fame. From walking along Fifth Avenue to eating ice cream at Serendipity to sharing tender moments on top of the Empire State building, sparks fly as Bianca and Eric spend twelve magical hours far away from their respective lives. In that time, they talk about the big stuff: love, life, and happiness, and the freedom they both seek to fully exist and not merely survive. But real life is more than just a few exhilarating stolen moments in time. As the clock strikes the twelfth hour, Bianca returns back to the life she detests to face a tragedy that will test her strength and resolve—and the o

  Clean Win by Kevin R. Doyle   GENRE :    Mystery Laura Mosby is like a lot of young women, working in a job she doesn't like, looking for a way out, and doing her best to enjoy her privacy. When she dies a violent death at the hands of an intruder, it's at first brushed off as a standard homicide. But when Lieutenant Santiago, the supervising detective, comes across evidence linking her death to a local politician, he begins to see the faint threads of a much nastier scheme. Desperate to shield his people from potential harm, he turns to Sam Quinton, full-time gym owner and part-time private investigator, to help solve Laura's murder and help the police department evade the wrath of City Hall. Excerpt: He hooked his left leg behind my right, sending me crashing to the cracked linoleum floor. While that was bad for me, it wasn’t too good for him either, seeing as how I managed to keep my grip around him as we went down. I felt a twinge in my back as we hit the grou

  Raven, Romda and Ravai: Malketh and the Undead, Vol.2 by Dave Maruszewski   GENRE : Middle Grade, Fantasy Raven, Romda and Ravai are settling into their new knightly duties well. With the Dark Beast defeated, their normal tasks almost seem mundane.   Amidst the boredom, Ravai asks, “Why does no one talk about villains from the past?”   Romda reasons, “What would be the point?”   There is a point. Even though villains may have been defeated in the past, they may still be around, waiting in the background ready to resurface once again.   Malketh has returned to the kingdom, but something is different about him this time. He is back with an entire army … an entire army of undead soldiers!   “Whether you want to read this aloud to your little one or let them explore this magical world on their own, parents can rest assured that this second installment in the Raven, Romda, and Ravai series will be a playful, whimsical addition to their bookshelves.” –The Book Rev

  I Used to be Fun Melanie Summers Publication date: April 14th 2023 Genres: Adult, Women’s Fiction “Insightful, entertaining, and satisfying. A deliciously dishy look at a typical American family behind closed doors.” ~ USA Today Bestseller Whitney Dineen “A life-affirming emotional rollercoaster. Perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette !” ~ USA Today Bestseller Kate O’Keeffe A richly satisfying family dramedy for any woman who has asked, “Whose life is this?” Jessica Holloway is miserable. As mom to two ungrateful, almost-grown children and wife to one appreciative-but-needy husband, she has all-but-abandoned the extraordinary—and extraordinarily fun —woman she used to be. She may be smiling while she volunteers at the school’s dog wash fundraiser, but inside, she’s seething. Having traded her future as a high-powered attorney for motherhood nearly two decades ago, she’s now desperate to reconnect with the woman she once was. Pushed to her breaking point, Jessic

  Middle Grade fantasy Date Published : 10-20-2018     Sent to live with her strict, aloof, and uncaring uncle after her parents are killed in a car accident, twelve-year-old orphan Alyssa McCarthy longs for the life she used to have—one filled with fun and love. Then one stormy night, a message appears in the raindrops on the window that will change everything. "Your life will never be the same again, as magic will interfere." Before long, Alyssa is kidnapped by Master Beau, a banished sorcerer with a mysterious connection to her who can only regain his power by weakening hers. Suddenly hurled into a world of wizardry filled with fantastical beasts and marvelous technology beyond her wildest imagination, Alyssa must defeat Master Beau if she ever wants to get home again. But Master Beau will stop at nothing, including using Alyssa’s friends, to ensure he is triumphant.     About the Author

  Grand Gestures Lynne Hancock Pearson Publication date: April 15th 2023 Genres: Adult, Comedy, Contemporary, Romance She will grit her teeth and smile at the snobby and suspicious CFO if it means landing the contract. But she won’t put on a dress and definitely not heels. Event planner Jane Beckett has big dreams for her small company and is bending over backward to accommodate demanding clients. Jane doesn’t have to like them. She doesn’t have to spend her free time with them. But she wants to tease the grumpy pencil-pushing executive who always seems to be in her way, muss up his hair and show him that there’s more to life than boardrooms and bottom lines. That is, when she doesn’t want to yell at him. Or punch him. Liam Cross believes every woman has a hidden agenda, one that involves taking advantage of big hearted, clueless billionaires like his best friend and co-worker. He’s watching Jane and her sister to ensure that party-planning is all that’s going on. Even though

  Mystery To Be Published : 4/11/23 A Widow Writer Mystery   Jaynie Floyd, a celebrated mystery writer, has a book on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s wonderful news and her agent wants to send her on a book tour to promote it. However, Jaynie is newly widowed and doesn’t want to go. As she works through her grief, a myriad of problems arise with family and life. Once she finally decides to go on the book tour, partially to escape, all hell breaks loose. One of the other authors on the tour is murdered and Jaynie’s instincts as a mystery writer are called into action. Soon she is chasing down leads and suspects, all the while avoiding requests from police and family to keep out of it. Her skills and curiosity take Jaynie into dangerous territory, from which she may not escape. Bodies pile up as she gets closer to the truth. Truth that could make sure she bothers the killer no more. Book Tour Madness is

    Young Adult / YA Fantasy / Mystery Date Published: March 2023 Publisher: ‎ Fire & Ice Young Adult Books   Some secrets aren't meant to be shared... Sixteen-year-old Calvin Hughes can see human energy and in that revealing light learns the best and worst of the people around him. He tells no one what he sees, until a young girl vanishes beneath the marsh and the truth behind her tragedy is too disturbing to hide. But when enchantments lure Cal toward the haunted waters and his sole confidante betrays him, Cal discovers the danger of knowing too much and the price for sharing secrets, especially one that could change the world.   About the Author E. L. Werbitsky is a freelance writer and former news journalist whose work has been published in print and online publications, podcasts and literary journals. She resides in Buffalo, NY where she enjoys lake effect snow and, of course, the Bills. In 2022, she founde

    As part of this book tour, I had the opportinity to read the entire series. Book Details: Book Title :  Good Luck to Murder:  A Fiona Quinn Mystery #5 Author:   C.S. McDonald Category :  YA Fiction, 148 pages Genre :  Cozy Mystery Publisher :  McWriter Books Release date :  June 1, 2018 Content Rating :  G (The Fiona Quinn Mysteries are for everyone--adults love the books and they are appropriate for teens and tweens too!) Book Description: Dreams, wishes, fantasies, and... murder? Fiona's good friend and fellow teacher, Lucky Maguire leads everyone to believe he has won a huge jackpot! Only Lucky turns out not to be so lucky - he winds up dead and his supposed winning lottery ticket missing!  Yikes! Did Lucky really win the lottery and if so, where is the ticket hidden?  Who knew for sure if he truly was Pittsburgh's newest millionaire?  Double yikes! Join Fiona and the gang for this winning cozy mystery that's sure to keep you betting on the suspects! I received an ad

    Historical Fiction Date Published : July 2, 2021   Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she's been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being told to type and when a man who is 500th in his law school class is hired over a woman who is first in hers. She yearns to find true love when the family curse dictates that love always ends for the Hemingways, and usually, it ends badly. And finally, she'd give up the first two dreams if she were able to triumph on the third. She longs to have an impact on the only thing that matters to her father: his writing. To accomplish that would require a miracle. All three dreams are almost impossible, but it's the "almost" that keeps Finn going. Ernest Hemingway had three sons and ached to have a daughter.