Dark Intercept ~ Review

Dark Intercept

Shepherds #1

By Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson

Jedidiah Johnson has been running from his past, from a moment in his teen years in which he felt God had let him down. But when the past demands that he return home he has no choice but to do what he can to save an innocent young life. What he didn't expect was a spiritual battle in which souls and lives will depend on the choices he makes. 

He abandoned his faith, his friends, and his dreams years ago. He saw something he has spent years denying and now he is about to be confronted by it all when he gets a desperate plea for help.

Dark Intercept takes the reader on a journey into the world that lies beyond the human eye. A world in which the spiritual realm battles for the human soul and world dominance. This book clearly falls into the Speculative Fiction genre and it does it well. 

I enjoyed this book in both the paperback and the Audio version. The audio version was narrated by MacLeod Andrews and the narration was good - I did speed it up to 1.4x to get it in line with my normal reading speed. Both versions are excellent and well worth adding to your home library.

I was provided a complimentary copy of the text version of the book with no expectations but that I provide my honest ~ all thoughts expressed are my own.

Publisher Tyndale

Purchase Link – Amazon

Book Blurb

When dark forces rise, are faith and firepower enough?

On the eve of his medical retirement, Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson receives a frantic call from his estranged childhood best friend David Yarnell. David’s daughter has been kidnapped off the streets of Nashville in broad daylight. The police have no suspects and no leads. The only clue: the body of a dead priest left behind at the scene. With the clock ticking, David is growing desperate, as is his wife, Rachel . . . Jed’s first love.

Despite his painful history with David and Rachel, Jed agrees to help. But he’s spent his career as a door-kicking Navy SEAL, not an investigator. His presence immediately draws unwanted attention, creates friction with the local police, and triggers a mysterious attempt on his life. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, it starts to happen again—the voices in his head, the nightmares, the visions. Dark memories and strange abilities, things he believed he’d left behind when he fled Nashville for the Navy at eighteen, begin to resurface.

Jed realizes that to save the missing girl, he must take a leap of faith and embrace the gifts he’s denied for all these years. To foil this dark intercept, he’ll need more than just his years as a SEAL operator, because he has no choice now but to take up arms and join the battle in the unseen spiritual warfare raging all around him. And there is far more at stake than just a missing girl: the world is not the place he thought it was—and he is not alone.

Follow the military heroes of The Shepherds series as they bring the power of light into the dark mystery of Sara Beth’s abduction.

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Blood Secrets ~ Cover Reveal

Cover Reveal for Morgan L. Busse's Blood Secrets

the second book in the Skyworld Duology

Not everyone wants to see the world saved . . .

Time is running out. Cities are being engulfed in the Mist and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Theo believes he has found a way to stop mankind from Turning, but he doesn’t know how to alter Cass’s unique blood into a cure. Or if it can even be done.

Meanwhile, Cass struggles with the idea that she is possibly the savior of the world—a world she is not sure is worth saving.

From the Winchester manse to the steel city of Decadenn, there is something more chasing Cass than the House of Lords or the masked man who can walk in the Mist. Soon she must decide if she will use her blood to save mankind or let those who only care about themselves perish.

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The Adoption Surprise ~ Review

The Adoption Surprise

By Zoey Marie Jackson

A chance meeting brings Mia and her dad Zack Johnson and Morgan and her aunt Kelsey Harris together with a big shock. Mia and Morgan look just like one another. And the two five-year-olds have an instant connection. Could they be twins, separated before their adoptions?

Loss has shaped their lives and Mia and Morgan are determined to again have a perfect family but this time together. But Zach and Kelsey aren't looking for romance. Can two little girls change their minds and get the happily ever after they desire?

This delightful book is published by Harlequin Love Inspired so you know you'll get to happily-ever-after but there may be more than one or two bumps along the way that could destroy everything they even wanted. Can two young girls get their happy ending?

I was provided a complimentary copy of this book with no expectations. All thoughts expressed are my honest opinion.

About the Book:

Separated at birth and determined to become a family.

“She looks like me!” When her orphaned niece utters those words, Kelsey Harris is shocked—not only that Morgan has a long-lost twin but that the grieving five-year-old spoke at all. Overjoyed by Morgan and Mia’s instant connection, Kelsey and Zach Johnson, Mia’s widowed adoptive father, agree to be friends—and only friends. But can they ignore their growing feelings when the matchmaking sisters put their plan into action?

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Safe House Exposed ~ Review with Giveaway

 

Safe House Exposed

Border Patrol

By Darlene L. Turner

She and her team put a crime boss behind bars and now they've all become targets and she is next on the list. Emma James has no choice if she wants to live and keep her daughter safe she has to go into Witness Protection. There's just one problem someone has betrayed them and now she is on the run with the one man she doesn't want to be with - her brother-in-law Mason James.

Mason has kept away from Emma since his brother's death for her own peace of mind so he doesn't remind her of what she lost.  But Emma needs him and he won't let her down the way he did his brother.  But keeping Emma and Sierra alive becomes increasingly more difficult as those targeting them seem to be in the ever-closing loop of those in the know. 

Safe House Exposed is a fast-paced action-filled offering from the Love Inspired Collection that offers a wonderful blend of suspense and romance without graphic anything. In this book, both Emma and Mason have to come to terms with the guilt that each carries all while dealing with staying alive.  The story is engaging and the characters interesting.  Emma's anger at Mason is interesting as we (as readers) are able to see the issue from both sides. I really feel for Mason with what he has gone through trying to make everybody happy, everyone except himself.

I would recommend this book for anyone how wants clean-reading suspense and romance.

I was provided a complimentary copy of this book with no expectations but that I provide my honest opinion - all thoughts expressed are my own.

 Witness protection should have kept them safe. Instead, it left them completely exposed…

Darlene L. Turner's Safe House Exposed is the newest book in the Border Patrol series from Love Inspired Suspense!

Purchase Link – Amazon

ABOUT THE BOOK

Witness protection should have kept them safe. Instead, it left them completely exposed…

Canadian border patrol officer Emma James has only one concern after putting a crime boss behind bars: keeping her daughter safe. But witness protection has a leak, and Emma’s enemies know exactly where to find her. Now on the run with no safe haven, trusting her estranged former brother-in-law, police constable Mason James, to shield them is her only hope…

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To Win a Prince ~ Cover Reveal

Toni Shilo's In Search of a Prince was released just 2 weeks ago and if you enjoyed the book, as I did,

you will be thrilled to learn that a second book will be released on September 13, 2022!

That's right To Win A Prince is coming this fall. 

And what better day to have a cover reveal than on 

Valentine's Day?

💙💚💗💛💜

But first I'm sure you want to get a quick idea of

what is coming before you see the cover.

Right?

Well, even if you don't the reveal is kind of like a present and you

like the anticipation of what is to come. And the back cover blurb 

is a tantalizing tease - a first glimpse of what is coming.

So here is the back cover blurb to enjoy:

As a fashion aficionado and best friend of the queen of the African island country Ọlọrọ Ilé, Iris Blakely dreams of using her talent to start a business to help citizens in impoverished areas. But when she discovers that Ekon Diallo will be her business consultant, the battle between her desires and reality begins.

Ekon Diallo has lost everything: his princely title, his material possessions, his friends, and the respect of his countrymen. To pay for his actions against Ọlọrọ Ilé, he’s forced to assist the charismatic Iris Blakely—but he can’t allow his heart to distract him from regaining his status.

As Iris strives to get her business off the ground while keeping her heart intact, will her dreams of happily ever after survive the challenges she faces?

Preorder: BakerBook House 

Goodreads

Toni Shilo

Book releasing September 13, 2022, from Bethany House Publishers

And now the cover reveal that you have been

anticipating and waiting for is here:

Don't you just love the cover?

And with Iris's work as a fabric purchaser

for a fashion designer in In Search of a Prince

I think this dress and the style are perfect for this cover!

And doesn't they look absolutely lovely side-by-side? 

The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water ~ Review

The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water

By Erin Bartels

Kendra Brennan told her story to the world, but then she received a letter that drove her back to grandfather's cabin - the setting for both her story and the most important place of her life. But going back means facing the past and seeing her story through the eyes of another. But to move forward in her life and her writing Kendra has to confront the past, the secrets, and the accusations that she has allowed to rule her life. 

This book deals with sensitive issues as Kendra confronts her past and the people who shaped her. She also deals with the friendship that died one summer - a friendship that she allowed to die. 

The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water is well-written and it will be one of those books one either loves or hates. I will admit I had trouble getting into it at first but once past the initial issues I had, which I believe was purely my mental place at the time, I moved through the book rather quickly. This book is written in two distinct styles - first as if being told or written to Kendra's childhood friend Cami and second as actions as seen through Kendra's eyes. 

I was provided a complimentary copy of this book with no expectations but that I provide my honest opinion ~ All thoughts expressed are my own.

About the Book:

The best fiction simply tells the truth.

But the truth is never simple.

When novelist Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather's old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader. The plan? To confront Tyler, her childhood best friend's brother--and the man who inspired the antagonist in her first book. If she can prove that she told the truth about what happened during those long-ago summers, perhaps she can put the letter's claims to rest and meet the swiftly approaching deadline for her next book.

But what she discovers as she delves into the murky past is not what she expected. While facing Tyler isn't easy, facing the consequences of her failed friendship with his sister, Cami, may be the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

Plumb the depths of the human heart with this emotional exploration of how a friendship dies, how we can face the unforgivable, and how even those who have been hurt can learn to love with abandon.

A Heart Adrift ~ Review

A Heart Adrift

By Laura Frantz

Years ago Esmée Shaw thought she'd marry Captain Henri Lennox but she didn't want to share him with the sea. As the years have gone by they have managed to avoid one another for the most part. But Henri has returned to the York/Williamsburg area with hopes to finish the lighthouse he and Esmée had dreamed of completing.

Esmée has had a decade to rethink her break with Henri. She has her regrets and though she doesn't want to admit it her heart is Henri's. Society and its expectations have little bearing on her life as she is given over to her chocolate shop and her efforts for the alms house. She doesn't have time to deal with her feelings for Henri but someone has other plans as Henri and Esmée keep coming into situations that bring them together.

Henri has tired of his extended absences from home. He longs to settle down but war is threatening the peace. Could colonial America be drawn into the dispute between England and France? And will he be drawn back to the sea? Henri has some serious thinking to do both about where he will call home and his feelings for Esmée.

I really liked this book A Heart Adrift has an easy to get into it quality. The story is engaging and I love the historical aspects to it. Esmée is a caring person who allowed her observations of her mother's experiences with her father, a man of the sea, to decide her future with the man she loved. A Heart Adrift is a book of second chances. Uncertainty and danger is an aspect of any life and I feel that this was something that Esmée needed to realize and come to terms with.

 

I love Laura Frantz's work and have never been disappointed with her ever. Her characters have a depth that one can identify with. I love the rich attention to detail in the everyday operation of the chocolate shop and the historical settings. If you are a fan of Historical Romance you will not be disappointed.

I was provided a complimentary copy of this book with no expectations but that I provide my honest opinion, all thoughts expressed are my own.

About the Book:

It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.

Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmée. But when the colonial government asks him to lead a secret naval expedition against the French, his future is plunged into uncertainty.

Will a war and a cache of regrets keep them apart, or can their shared vision and dedication to the colonial cause heal the wounds of the past? Bestselling and award-winning author Laura Frantz whisks you away to a time fraught with peril--on the sea and in the heart--in this redemptive, romantic story.