To any authors/publishers/ tour companies that are looking for the reviews that I signed up for please know this is very hard to do.
I will be stopping reviews temporarily. My husband passed away February 1st and my new normal is a bit scary right now and I am unable to concentrate on a book to do justice to the book and authors.
I will still do spotlight posts if you wish it is just the reviews at this time. I apologize for this, but it isn't fair to you if I signed up to do a review and haven't been able to because I can't concentrate on any books.
Thank you for your understanding during this difficult time. I appreciate all of you.
Kathleen Kelly
April 2nd 2024
Lindsay Fischer was once a high school English teacher with dreams stretching far outside the classroom. When her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half cheated on her, Lindsay found herself alone, looking online for a replacement. His name was Mike.
That’s where the nightmare started.
The House on Sunset is a memoir, a collection of reminiscences, scattering the ashes of two broken homes and putting them to rest. Each chapter offers a different glimpse inside the cycle of intimate partner violence, where honeymoon phases and traumas coexist.
Everyone could fall victim to abusers. This book bravely displays the reasons a quirky, twenty-something teacher would, and did.
Author Bio:
Lindsay Fischer graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science in secondary education, English. An avid reader and learner, Lindsay took her passion for words into a classroom before starting a writing career. Life pulled her from the classroom, providing an opportunity to use her voice against domestic violence, blogging under the pseudonym, Sarafina Bianco, since 2009.
You can find her words at survivorswillbeheard.com and speak directly to her when she hosts #domesticviolencechat on Twitter. Lindsay hopes to be an advocate for women, men and children who still live inside the nightmare of their abuse.
She currently lives with her husband and three dogs, including Watson, in St. Louis, Missouri.
In a heart-racing thriller described as Falling Skies meets The Walking Dead, Jennie struggles to find a safe place for what's left of her family. But it seems as though there is no place sacred, no place secure. First the aliens attacked the sun, making it dimmer, weaker, and half what it used to be. Then they attacked the water supply, killing one-third of Earth's population with a bitter contaminate. And when they unleash a new terror on humankind, the victims will wish for death, but will not find it… When the world shatters to pieces around her, will Jennie find the strength she needs to keep going?
Pauline Creeden is a horse trainer from Virginia, but writing is her therapy. In her fiction, she creates worlds that are both familiar and strange, often pulling the veil between dimensions. She becomes the main character in each of her stories, and because she has ADD, she will get bored if she pretends to be one person for too long. Follow Pauline Creeden:Website | Facebook | Twitter
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On this anything but typical Monday morning Jenna Scali, who works part-time for a shrink, opens an email that depicts the brutal death of a young girl. On that same day the police uncover a dead coed two blocks from Jenna’s house. The e-murderer’s description creepily echos the death described in the newspapers. When Jenna receives other emails, she takes what she knows to the police and thus begins her journey in the path of the e-murderer. Her curious nature impels her from e-messages to dead coeds to a ring of prostitutes. With the help of her quirky friends, Jenna learns that she’s more than a conduit for the killer. She’s his target. New secrets unfold, and finally her love life takes a tumble when the true killer emerges. THE E-MURDERER is a race to find a psychotic killer before he kills again. This new mystery series with a young female sleuth promises to keep you glued to your seat until the last page.
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Excerpt 4 from e-Murderer
I snagged the only available parking space in front of the Five Points Drug
Store, which also served as a post office.
The door opened with a loud swish. Our neighborhood druggist hollered at me from the other side of the counter.
“Hiya, Jenna. Whatcha been up to?”
“School, work. You know, Artie, the usual exciting stuff.”
I headed for the greeting cards to purchase one for Starr. After opening several, I selected one that read: At your age, calories no longer count. Inside was a picture of a gray-haired grandma, smeared from head to toe in birthday cake.
“This heat is awful. Hopefully we’ll get more rain this week,” Artie said.
I put the card on the counter along with the mail from the office. “I had enough rain last night to keep me a month.”
He wiped his glasses. “Yeah, that was quite a gully-washer, but what we need is a slow steady rain or my grass is gonna dry up and disappear. How’s the neighborhood shrink? Still treating you right?”
“The best.”
“Mrs. Bingham was in here yesterday. She’s quite a busy lady. My wife says
the Binghams never eat supper together anymore, what with her working at night and all. People say her PR business is doing real well even though—”
“Dr. Bingham never complains,” I cut in, and put a few bills on the counter
next to the mail.
“Nope, you’d not catch me complaining about eating overcooked meatloaf
night after night if my wife looked like Mrs. Bingham. That’d make it worth the trouble.” He posted the mail and handed me my change with a leer he quickly changed to a half-smile. “She’s quite a lovely little thing, eh?”
Jealousy rose inside me. I bit my lip. My dislike for Dr. Bingham’s wife
probably had everything to do with the fact that she was as Artie put it, “a lovely little thing.” At no more than five-two, Beth Bingham looked more like a child than a forty-year-old woman. When I’d first met her, my petty self decided her luscious blond hair had to be dyed. No one had hair that yellow unless they were two years old.
“You’re a dirty old man, Artie.” I pocketed my change, clutched the card to my chest, and left.
About the author:
Joanis an award-winning writer who has published 6 books and numerous stories. Readers compare her to the great Southern writer, Fanny Flagg. “She writes characters and a story that will stay with you.”Her debut mystery/suspense novel, The Clock Strikes Midnight, won the silver medal for fiction/suspense in the Global eBook Awards for 2015 and is a finalist for the Royal Palm Literary Award. The e-Murderer won first place in the Malice
Domestic Grants competition for new writers.Joan has been an avid reader for as long as she can remember. She reads all kinds of books, including women’s fiction, mysteries, biography, and nonfiction. Mystery/suspense with a psychological twist is exactly the kind of book Joan loves to read. "I write about characters who remind me of myself at times and my sister at times, but never fully so. My stories are told from a woman's point of view with a destiny. Characters drive my writing and my reading." Having grown up in the South with a mother from Westchester County New York, Joan has a unique take on blending the Southern traditions with the eye of a Northerner. She spent most of her childhood in North Carolina and now resides in Athens, Georgia.
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Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars, and his best friend is a cyborg…and a lousy tipper. When everything is spiraling out of control, though, maybe those are exactly the kind of friends you need.
In a world divided between the genetically engineered elite and the unmodified masses, Anders is an anomaly: engineered, but still broke and living next to a crack house. All he wants is to land a tenure-track faculty position, and maybe meet someone who's not technically a criminal—but when a nightmare plague rips through Hagerstown, Anders finds himself dodging kinetic energy weapons and government assassins as Baltimore slips into chaos. His friends aren't as helpless as they seem, though, and his girlfriend's street-magician brother-in-law might be a pretentious hipster—or might hold the secret to saving them all.
Frenetic and audacious, Three Days in April is a speculative thriller that raises an important question: once humanity goes down the rabbit hole, can it ever find its way back?
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Edward Ashton lives with his adorably mopey dog, his inordinately patient wife, and three beautiful but terrifying daughters in Rochester, New York, where he studies new cancer therapies by day, and writes about the awful things his research may lead to by night. His short fiction has appeared in dozens of venues, ranging from Louisiana Literature to Daily Science Fiction. Three Days in April is his first novel.
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She needs his protection almost as much as she needs his heart... Rebecca Mayes has already endured more than her fair share of tragedy. After her husband was killed in a horrific car crash, she'd do anything to shield herself from more heartache. A highly sought after attorney, Rebecca's success in the courtroom has not come without costs. The disgruntled ex-husband of a client is seeking revenge on the one he blames for his troubles--and his sights are set on Rebecca. While she remains blissfully unaware, he's stalking her, and getting closer every day. Navy SEAL Patrick "Ice" Foster vowed to never be in a relationship again after watching his ex-wife slowly die of cancer. That type of anguish was more than he could handle in one lifetime, and there's no way anyone can change his mind. Despite their determination never to fall in love again, Rebecca and Patrick can't deny the connection between them. But when danger lurks around every corner, she knows there's only one man she can trust to protect both her and her daughter. But who will protect her from a broken heart? SEAL the Deal, a stand-alone novel, is book one in the new series, Alpha SEALs.
THE ITALIAN WIFE Author Kate Furnivall (Berkley Trade Paperback Original; $16.00; October 6, 2015; 978-0-425-28138-3), About THE ITALIAN WIFE Isabella Berotti is an architect, creating showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country’s Fascist leaders. She is not deeply political, but designing these buildings of such grandiose beauty helps her forget her husband's murder a decade ago. One of her greatest accomplishments is the clock tower in the town of Bellina, outside of Rome. But as she is admiring it one day, a woman approaches her, asking her to watch her young daughter. Minutes later, the woman leaps to her death from the very tower, right in front of Isabella.
Moments later, Roberto Falco, a propaganda photographer for Il Duce, takes photos of the woman’s body. Roberto is expected to show his country in the most flattering light, however, what he and Isabella have witnessed reflects a more brutal reality. As they seek the truth of the woman's death, Isabella will discover the real cost of loving her country—and of loving a man whose secrets may prove him to be her greatest enemy.
The Author Kate Furnivall didn't set out to be a writer. It sort of grabbed her by the throat when she discovered the story of her grandmother - a White Russian refugee who fled from the Bolsheviks down into China. That extraordinary tale inspired her first book, The Russian Concubine. From then on, she was hooked.
Kate is the author of eight novels, including The Russian Concubine, The White Pearl and The Italian Wife. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages and have been on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Lindsay Fischer was once a high school English teacher with dreams stretching far outside the classroom. When her boyfriend of a year-and-a-half cheated on her, Lindsay found herself alone, looking online for a replacement. His name was Mike.
You can find her words at survivorswillbeheard.com and speak directly to her when she hosts #domesticviolencechat on Twitter. Lindsay hopes to be an advocate for women, men and children who still live inside the nightmare of their abuse.
