Summerhaven ~ Review with Excerpt and Giveaway

Summerhaven

By Tiffany Odekirk

For years Hannah Kent has dreamed of marrying Oliver Jennings. Eight years ago, Ollie promised to marry her. But the childhood promise has seemingly meant little to him as he pursues a more advantageous match. The uneasy alliance she makes with Damon Jennings to sway Ollie's sentiments back towards her is disconcerting. But Hannah is willing to do whatever it takes to win back the love she thought was hers. 

Hannah's time with Damon allows her to see someone in sharp contrast to the young boy, the young man she remembers. Could the bane of her childhood become her greatest ally? But can she genuinely fain love for the boy she despised to win back the heart of the one she always loved? There is the only way to know, and that is to agree to Damon's plan.

I liked Damon's character; he seems to be less flighty than Oliver. Damon's behavior toward Hannah is starkly different from that of Oliver's, and to be honest, I'm not sure why Hannah preferred Oliver's. Maybe it was colored by the past and her memories of it. 

There are times when I feel for Hannah as the bleakness of what she has lost overcomes her. I feel that her friendship with Amelia is one of the high points for her, though, for a time, it appears that the web she has gotten herself caught in is about to destroy even that.

Summerhaven is a book I highly recommend for anyone wanting a gentle, clean reading romance. 

I enjoyed the audio version of this book after first reading it. The narration is good; I found the pacing a little slow, so I upped the playback speed to 1.25x and found it in sync with my average reading speed. Overall this made for a second enjoyable experience with Summerhaven and Hannah's quest for a love match.

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

About the Book:

Hannah Kent and Oliver Jennings pledged their hearts to each other as children. Now, years later, Hannah is thrilled to receive an invitation to spend the summer at Oliver’s family’s country estate. The path to wedded bliss is clear—so long as Oliver’s highbrow older brother, Damon, has ceased his juvenile antics, Hannah’s future looks bright indeed.

But from the moment Hannah arrives at Summerhaven, nothing is as she expected. Oliver seems disinterested in renewing their acquaintance, and Damon is not the brutish boy she remembers but a man intent on avoiding marriage. Although she has loathed Damon her whole life, when he contrives a ruse designed to win them both what they desire, Hannah warily agrees. All she has to do to reclaim Oliver’s attention is pretend to be madly in love with Damon. But when Damon is surprisingly convincing in his role as a suitor, it proves difficult to discern the line between pretense and true love. 

Excerpt:

Damon stepped forward, and his watch key and seal—visible reminders of his status and self-importance—clanked together. He bowed. “Miss Kent.”

“My lord,” I returned with a shallow curtsy. 

The corners of his mouth curled into a smile. “I see someone has managed to make a lady out of the wild girl I once knew,” Damon said, and before stepping back in line with his mother, he met my eye and added, “A pity.”

My eyebrows pulled together in surprise. 

“Do try not to scowl, Miss Kent. It will crease your lovely brow.”

“Damon Jennings,” Lady Winfield scolded. “You have been taught better manners.”

“My apologies, Mother. Teasing a beautiful woman is one of few things that has yet to be lectured out of me.” 

I gaped. Never in all my life had a man spoken so casually to me. Damon may have grown into a man, but he was not a gentleman.

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Wishtress ~ Cover Reveal

Today we are having the cover reveal for Nadine Brandes upcoming

book ~ Wishtress

But before I reveal the cover you know you want to

learn about the book. 

About the Book:

She didn’t ask to be the Wishtress.

Myrthe was born with the ability to turn her tears into wishes. But when a granted wish goes wrong, a curse is placed on her: the next tear she sheds will kill her. She needs to journey to the Well and break the curse before it claims her life—and before the king’s militairen track her down. But in order to survive the journey, she must harden her heart to keep herself from crying even a single tear.

He can stop time with a snap of his fingers.

Bastiaan’s powerful—and rare—Talent came in handy when he kidnapped the old king. Now the new king has a job for him: find and capture the Wishtress and deliver her to the schloss. But Bastiaan needs a wish of his own. He gains Myrthe’s trust by promising to take her to the Well, but once he gets what he needs, he’ll turn her in. As long as his growing feelings for the girl with a stone heart don’t compromise his job.

They are on a journey that can only end one way: 

with her death.

Everyone seems to need a wish—the king, Myrthe’s cousin, the boy she thinks she loves. And they’re ready to bully, beg, and even betray her for it. No one knows that to grant even one of them, Myrthe would have to die. And if she tells them about her curse . . . they’ll just kill her anyway.

Doesn't this just sound like the perfect addition to your Fall TBR list?

Now here is the cover:

Don't you just love this cover?

You can preorder Wishtress now and enjoy it in September!

The Premonition at Withers Farm ~ Cover Reveal

Check out the cover for Jaime Jo Wrights's The Premonition at Withers Farm which is releasing on October 11, 2022!

About the Book:

In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed. But when Perliett is targeted by a superstitious killer, she relies on both George and an intriguing newcomer for help.

In the present day, life has not developed the way Molly Wasziak dreamed. Facing depression after multiple miscarriages, Molly is adapting to her husband's purchase of a new farm. A search for a family tree pulls Molly deep into a vintage web of deceptions, made more mysterious by the disturbing shadows and sounds in the old farmhouse.

Perliett fights for her life, and Molly seeks renewed purpose for hers as she uncovers the records of the dead. Will their voices be heard, or will time silence their truths forever?

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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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