Title: Secrets of a Serial Killer Author: Rosie Walker Published: July 2020, One More Chapter Format: ARC E-copy, 286 pages Source: Publisher Summary: An edge-of-your-seat serial killer thriller that you won’t be able to put down! There it is: fear. It’s crawling all over her face and in her eyes, like a swarm of insects, and it’s all because of him. A serial killer has been terrorising Lancaster for…
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Title: The Forgotten Daughter Author: Joanna Goodman Narrator: Esther Thibault Published: October 2020, Harper Audio / Harper Paperbacks Length: 12 hours 57 minutes / 416 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print via Publisher Summary: From the author of the bestselling novel The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and suspense, following the lives of two women reckoning with their pasts and the choices that will…
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Title: The Home for Unwanted Girls Author: Joanna Goodman Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Published: April 2018, Harper Audio Length: 9 hours 58 minutes Source: Library Summary: Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit – the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In…
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Title: To Tell You the Truth Author: Gilly Macmillan Published: September 2020, William Morrow Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: The acclaimed author of The Nanny, The Perfect Girl, and What She Knew—“a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly)—returns with another serpentine thriller that is a potent blend of atmosphere, tarnished memories, mystery, and twisty secrets from the past. Bestselling mystery writer Lucy Harper’s talent for…
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Title: A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem Author: Manda Collins Series: A Lady’s Guide, #1 Published: November 2020, Forever Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in award-winning author Manda Collins’ fun and flirty historical rom-com! England, 1865 : As one of England’s most notorious newspaper columnists, Lady Katherine Bascomb believes knowledge is power.…
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Title: In the Lion’s Den Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: House of Falconer, #2 Published: November 2020, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC E-copy, 352 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the highly anticipated second book in the House of Falconer saga. James Lionel Falconer has risen quickly from a mere shop worker to being the right-hand man of Henry…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for the Shadow Sands by Robert Bryndza. Thank you Little Brown Book Group for inviting me to participate. ***There are different covers for the UK & US books. The first cover shown is the UK cover, and at the bottom of the post, the US cover is show. Title: Shadow Sands Author: Robert Bryndza Series: Kate…
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Title: Paris for One & Other Stories Author: Jojo Moyes Published: October 2017, Penguin Books Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She’s never even been on a romantic weekend away–to anywhere–before. Traveling abroad isn’t really her thing. But when Nell’s boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone–including herself–wrong. Alone in…
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Title: Master of His Fate Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Series: House of Falconer, #1 Narrator: Joan Walker Published: November 2018, Macmillan Audio / St. Martin’s Press Length: 10 hours 57 minutes / 400 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print – Hardcopy via GetRed PR Summary: From New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the first book in a stunning new historical saga. Victorian England is a…
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My reading might have been a little slower this past month, but still higher than what it typically is. And now that we only have 2 months left in this year – how is that possible??? – I am really going to concentrate on reading more from my shelves and try not to spend any. We’ll see how that goes… Reading Stats: Read this month: 25…
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Title: A Frenzy of Sparks Author: Kristin Fields Published: November 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 252 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: From the author of A Lily in the Light comes a poignant story of innocence lost and what it means to grow up too fast. It’s 1965, and thirteen-year-old Gia, along with her older brother and cousins, are desperate to escape their sleepy, tree-lined neighborhood…
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Title: When We Were Young and Brave Author: Hazel Gaynor Narrator: Rosie Jones, Imogen Church Published: October 2020, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length: 11 hours 32 minutes / 448 pages Source: Audio via Library / Print via TLC BookTours Summary: Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home…
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Title: Bluebird Bluebird Author: Attica Locke Series: Highway 59 Published: August 2018, Mulholland Books Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire. When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas…
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Title: In the Deep Author: Loreth Anne White Published: October 2020, Montlake Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: I hope you don’t find him. And if you do, I hope he’s dead and that he suffered… Real-estate mogul Martin Cresswell-Smith is the best thing that has ever happened to Ellie. After her daughter’s devastating death, a divorce, and an emotional breakdown, he’s helped her move as far as…
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Title: A Beautiful Corpse Author: Christi Daugherty Series: Harper McClain, #2 Published: March 2019, Minotaur Books Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: From Christi Daugherty, author of The Echo Killing, comes another pulse-pounding suspenseful thriller featuring crime reporter Harper McClain. For a woman, being killed by someone who claims to love her is the most ordinary murder of all. With its antebellum houses and ancient oak trees…
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Title: Every Now and Then Author: Lesley Kagen Published: October 2020, Alcove Books Format: ARC E-copy, 296 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and This Tender Land. A heartfelt coming-of-age story about three young girls searching for adventure during the summer of 1960 from the New York Times bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark. The summer of 1960 was the hottest…
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Title: Absolution Author: Regina Buttner Published: October 2020, SparkPress Format: Paperback, 256 pages Source: Publisher via Publicist Summary: Jeanie thinks she was to blame for the sexual assault she suffered in college—and she’d do anything to keep her old-school Catholic family from finding out about the resulting pregnancy, as well as what she did to conceal it. Years have passed since the assault, and Jeanie’s husband, Greg, still thinks…
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Title: Northanger Abbey Author: Jane Austen Published: February 2007, Barnes & Noble Classics (1st published December 1817) Format: Hardcover, 260 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story,…
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Title: Hold Your Breath Author: Wendy Walker Narrator: Dylan Baker Published: October 2020, Audible Originals Length: 2 hours 31 minutes Source: Personal copy Summary: From the best-selling author of All Is Not Forgotten and Don’t Look for Me comes a sharp, compulsive thriller about a young woman who narrowly escapes a violent crime and the psychiatrist helping to recover her memory of the suspect. Gabby Ashford has just survived…
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Title: Keeping Lucy Author: T. Greenwood Published: August 2019, St. Martin’s Press Format: ARC E-copy, 320 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: From the author of Rust & Stardust comes this heartbreaking story, inspired by true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter. Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson’s heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure…
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Emily Carpenter is one of my favorite authors – ever since discovering her debut novel, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, I have fallen in love with her Southern Gothic novels. Her latest book, Reviving the Hawthorne Sisters, is published today. Earlier today I shared my review of the book – you can read that here. Today I have a conversation that Emily has prepared that I found to be quite interesting. …
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Title: Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters Author: Emily Carpenter Published: October 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: ARC Paperback, 332 pages Source: Publicist Summary: The bestselling author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls returns to uncover a faith healer’s elusive and haunted past. Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve…
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Title: The Creak on the Stairs Author: Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir, Translated by Victoria Cribb Series: Forbidden Iceland series, #1 Published: October 2020, Orenda Books (Paperback release) Format: E-copy, 315 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The first in the electrifying new Forbidden Iceland series, The Creak on the Stairs is an exquisitely written, claustrophobic and chillingly atmospheric debut thriller by one of Iceland’s most exciting new talents When the body of…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for The Mirror Man by Jane Gilmartin – I have an excerpt for you to read thanks to MIRA. Title: The Mirror Man Author: Jane Gilmartin Published: October 2020, MIRA Format: Hardcover, 352 pages Summary: Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him. The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out…
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Title: Death in the Family Author: Tessa Wegert Series: Shana Merchant, #1 Narrator: Callie Beaulieu Published: February 2020, Tantor Audio Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Source: Library Summary: A storm-struck island. A blood-soaked bed. A missing man. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant believes it all adds up to a killer in their midst—and that murder is a family affair. Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being…
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Title: Rupture Author: Ragnar Jonasson Series: Dark Iceland, #4 Published: January 2017, Orenda Books Format: Paperback, 244 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: 1955. Two young couples move to the uninhabited, isolated fjord of Hedinsfjörður. Their stay ends abruptly when one of the women meets her death in mysterious circumstances. The case is never solved. Fifty years later an old photograph comes to light, and it becomes clear that the…
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Title: One More for Christmas Author: Sarah Morgan Published: October 2020, HQN Format: ARC E-copy, 384 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: From the USA TODAY bestselling author of The Christmas Sisters comes this sparkling tale of Christmas redemption. Brimming with Sarah Morgan’s trademark festive cheer, you won’t want to miss it! For sisters Samantha and Ella Mitchell, Christmas is their most precious time of the year—a time for togetherness, love…
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Title: Invisible Girl Author: Lisa Jewell Published: October 2020, Atria Books Format: ARC Paperback, 368 pages Source: Publisher Summary: The author of the “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties, a…
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Title: The Last Flight Author: Julie Clark Published: June 2020, Sourcebooks Landmark Format: Hardcover, 288 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Two women. Two Flights. One last chance to disappear. Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is…
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Title: Return to Virgin River Author: Robyn Carr Series: Virgin Carr, #19 Published: October 2020, MIRA Format: Hardcover, 320 pages Source: Publisher via Little Bird Publicity Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr returns to the beloved town of Virgin River with a brand-new story about fresh starts, new friends and the magic of Christmas. Kaylee Sloan’s home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of…
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Title: Goodnight Beautiful Author: Aimee Molloy Narrator: Val Toomey, George Newbern, Marin Ireland, Joel Froomkin Published: October 2020, Harper Audio Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Source: ALC via Libro.fm Summary: From “master of clever misdirection” (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times best seller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside-down when her husband goes…
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Title: The Request Author: David Bell Published: June 2020, Berkley Books Format: ARC Paperback, 416 pages Source: Publisher via GetRed PR Summary: When a man agrees to do a favor for a friend, he gets more than he bargained for as he becomes embroiled in a woman’s murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of Layover. Ryan Francis has it all–great job, wonderful wife, beautiful…
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Title: The Deadly Hours Author: Susanna Kearsley, C.S. Harris, Anna Lee Huber, Christine Trent Published: September 2020, Poisoned Pen Press Format: ARC Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publisher Summary: A stellar line-up of historical mystery novelists weaves the tale of a priceless and cursed gold watch as it passes through time wreaking havoc from one owner to another. The characters are irrevocably linked by fate, each playing a…
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Title: This Secret Thing Author: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Published: October 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Out of love. Out of protection. Out of fear. Everyone has a reason to lie. Everyone in Raleigh, North Carolina, is talking about Norah Ramsey, the single mother accused of being a suburban madam. But Norah’s not the only one keeping secrets. After her mother’s arrest, Norah’s teenage…
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Title: Three Perfect Liars Author: Heidi Perks Published: June 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC E-copy, 336 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: From the author of Her One Mistake , hailed as “chilling, captivating” by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda, comes a riveting new suspense novel about three ambitious women whose lives are turned upside down in the aftermath of a horrifying fire, which destroys a successful advertising agency…
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Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger. Thank you Park Rowe Books for inviting me to participate. Title: Confessions on the 7:45 Author: Lisa Unger Published: October 2020, Park Row Books Format: ARC E-copy, 315 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: From master of suspense Lisa Unger comes a riveting thriller about a chance encounter that…
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Title: Troubles in Paradise Author: Elin Hilderbrand Series: Paradise, #3 Narrator: Erin Bennett Published: October 2020, Hachette Audio Length: 11 hours 29 minutes Source: Publisher via Libro.fm Summary: Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in the satisfying conclusion to the nationally bestselling Winter in Paradise trilogy by Elin Hilderbrand, “Queen of the Summer Novel” (People). After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in…
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Title: Their Silent Graves Author: Carla Kovach Series: Detective Gina Harte, #7 Published: September 2020, Bookouture Format: ARC E-copy, 360 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: Dressed in garish Halloween costumes, two teenage girls run through a patch of dense woodland towards the outskirts of town. But before they can reach the safety of the streets beyond, they make a shocking discovery. Following a piece of old rope, the girls…
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Title: Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish Author: Tori Whitaker Published: October 2020, Lake Union Publishing Format: Paperback, 352 pages Source: Publicist Summary: Three generations of women—and the love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets that can bind them forever or tear them apart. Millicent Glenn is self-sufficient and contentedly alone in the Cincinnati suburbs. As she nears her ninety-first birthday, her daughter Jane, with whom she’s weathered a shaky relationship, suddenly moves…
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Title: Never Turn Back Author: Christopher Swann Published: October 2020, Crooked Lane Books Format: ARC Paperback, 278 pages Source: Publisher Summary: Linwood Barclay meets Michael Farris Smith in this Southern-set domestic thriller about family, vengeance, and atonement from critically acclaimed Southern mystery novelist Christopher Swann. The bonds of family never truly let go. In fact, its grip only tightens the further you try to run: crushing and crippling. Ethan…
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My reading streak continues as does my staying home, and I am certainly not complaining. I did manage to reign in my spending this month after going a little overboard last month, which was good. Now that fall is officially here and the cooler weather has made its appearance, I am ready for all the spooky reads and those heavier, more in-depth reads…I obviously have the time for them!…
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Title: Verity Author: Colleen Hoover Published: December 2018, Independently Published Format: Paperback, 314 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at…
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Title: Jar of Hearts Author: Jennifer Hillier Published: August 2019, Minotaur Books Format: Paperback, 320 pages Source: Personal copy Summary: This is the story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who’s been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong–one of the most popular girls in school–disappeared without a trace.…
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Title: The Nesting Author: C.J. Cooke Published: September 2020, Gallery Books Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: The woods are creeping in on a nanny and two young girls in this chilling modern Gothic thriller. Architect Tom Faraday is determined to finish the high-concept, environmentally friendly home he’s building in Norway–in the same place where he lost his wife, Aurelia, to suicide. It was their dream house,…
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Title: The Gone Dead Author: Chanelle Benz Published: March 2020, Ecco Books Format: Paperback, 304 pages Source: Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: An electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death Billie James’ inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack in…
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Title: The Royal Governess Author: Wendy Holden Published: August 2020, Berkley Format: ARC E-copy, 368 pages Source: Netgalley Summary: Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of the world’s most iconic figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the little-known governess who made Britain’s queen into the monarch we know today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring…
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Title: Little Disasters Author: Sarah Vaughan Published: August 2020, Atria/Emily Bestler Books Format: ARC E-copy, 432 pages Source: Netgalley via Publisher Summary: A new thought-provoking novel exploring the complexity of motherhood and all that connects and disconnects us. You think you know her…but look a little closer. She is a stay-at-home mother-of-three with boundless reserves of patience, energy, and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how…
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Title: When No One Is Watching Author: Alyssa Cole Narrator: Susan Dalian, Jay Aaseng Published: September 2020, Harper Audio / William Morrow Paperbacks Length: 8 hours 30 minutes / 368 pages Source: Audio – ALC via Libro.fm / Print – Paperback via Publisher via TLC Booktours Summary: Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the…
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I am so excited to be taking part in the cover reveal of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s newest book!!! I adore her books and this latest one sounds amazing. It will be released April 20, 2021. Title: Under the Southern Sky Author: Kristy Woodson Harvery Published: April 2021, Gallery Books Format: Paperback, 400 pages Summary: Two childhood friends discover that love—and family—can be found in unconventional ways in this timely,…
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Title: Blood Victory Author: Christopher Rice Series: Burning Girl, #3 Narrator: Lauren Ezzo Published: August 2020, Brilliance Audio Length: 10 hours 29 minutes Source: Publisher Summary: On a cross-country journey to hell, fear is the engine and vengeance is the destination as Christopher Rice’s Amazon Charts bestselling series continues.As the test subject of an experimental drug, Charlotte Rowe was infused with extraordinary powers. As the secret weapon of a…
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